The Gloucestershire Poetry Society presents our regular online event in 2022, 'Crafty Crows', hosted by Josephine Lay.

Wednesday 2nd March, from 7.00pm until 9.00pm, Featuring Derek Dohren & Jake Wildeman, plus open-mic.
Via Zoom (Technical stuff by Jason Conway)
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To enter the event, just scan the event link, on your ticket, into your browser...
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To reserve an open-mic slot for this event, please email, craftycrows2020@yahoo.com after the 2nd February 2022. Open-mic slots will be 3 minutes max. (please stick to this, as we don't want to have to cut people off). Please be aware that Crafty Crows is recorded, and subsequently posted via youtube...

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Derek Dohren’s spirit of mild curiosity is borne upon fanciful winds. This is not always a good thing. After his most recent ill-fated adventuring resulted in him spend a couple of months driving buses on the Isle of Skye Derek has returned to trundling his people carriages through the Forest of Dean. He rolls with life’s punches and no matter where this leads him his head remains determinedly in the clouds. None of this sits particularly well with his passengers, but they are generally a patient lot, and most of them aren’t paying anyway.

Much like his driving Derek can be ‘as direct as a ransom note or can spin out tales that take you on a long journey. Either way, he delivers without fail.’

His two poetry collections, ‘Everything Rhymes with Orange’ ISBN-13 978-1913195038 and ‘Wasp in My Cockpit’ ISBN-13 978-1913195137 (Black Eyes Publishing UK), are a celebration of his unique style, described by one commentator as ‘quietly subversive’. Signed copies are available at Derek’s website at www.derekdohren.com/apps/webstore

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'Jake Wildeman is a hopeless romantic and occasional angry young man, native to Nottingham, with a built-in inclination to cover the words of songwriters alongside his own poetry. Making his performance debut on the Poetry Is Dead Good stage at Hockley Hustle 2016, Jake has been a fixture of open mic nights in and around the city ever since (at least until that there pandemic happened!!!), becoming a member of the DIY Poets Collective and co-host of Crosswords Open Mic over the following year. He has taken his poems to events as far as Southwell, Derby, Leicester and Birmingham, and also briefly ran a regular lyrics-appreciation event by the name of Poetry Undercover.

By this point in life, he is content to crawl out of the woodwork every so often to perform, though one can only guess the flavour of his set: caffeine-driven impotent rage, soppy bollocks love poetry, neo-gothic misery, or maybe even something genuinely heartfelt!'

Picture kindly taken and supplied by Dean Ireland of At the Poetry