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The Ecca Poets launch their 2022 book This Recurrence of Light at the Poetry in McGregor Festival.
Poets Brian Walter, Jacques Coetzee, Lara Kirsten and Ed Burle will be reading from the book.
20 November 2022
9:00
Veritas, Temenos Gardens
McGregor
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The Ecca Poets launch their 2021 book
Alles is anders at the McGregor Poetry Festival
20 November, Saturday 15:30 at the Backpackers
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The launch of the Ecca Poets latest book Staying Hungry
at the Hogsback Spring Festival
The Rose theatre @ Starways Arts Centre
Saturday 12 October 18:00
Ecca poets Brian Walter, Olwethu Mxoli, John van Wyngaard and Silke Heiss will present readings of a selection of the poems from the book.
R50 entry covers wine and snacks
Books R100
More info Gwyneth 082 928 5770
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Ecca poets reading at the Mcgregor Poetry Festival 2019
Saturday 24 August 2019
15:00
Mcgregor Backpackers
Featured poets will be Brian Walter, Ed Burle, Jacques Coetzee, John van Wyngaard, Olwethu Mxoli and Lara Kirsten
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Ecca poets performing at the Mcgregor Poetry Festival, Saturday 25 August 2018
20:30
Birdhaven, Mcgregor
Poets to read - Brian Walter, Olwethu Mxoli, Ed Burle, Jacques Coetzee and Lara Kirsten
Here a little report-back from Ecca poet Silke Heiss of the reading & book launch of Ecca's book for 2016 Gold in Spring in Hogsback on the 15th of October:
Dedicated to the late Anton van der Merwe, the launch of the Ecca Poets' latest book, Gold in Spring, went down very well on Saturday evening, with a full Rose Theater and very lively audience - for some it was their very first poetry reading! We thank Gwyneth, Vale, Pearce and the rest of the Starways Family for hosting us yet again, together with our 2016 guest poet, John van Wyngaard.
At the end of the reading we held a comma auction - we had overlooked a comma in one of Brian's poems, that ought not to have been there. Our audience was fantastic, the stakes rose higher as the bids increased - finally the comma was sold, and we made an extra bit for the modest Ecca coffers to help fund next year's book. Thank you to all who made the evening such fun!
Please remember that if you find a misplaced comma in the book, you are imagining things - it is in fact happily united with its owner, Zenobia Wamback, who had this to say afterwards: “It truly was an awesome event! Thanks to everyone that made it a memorable evening! A special thanks to Brian, Norman, Silke and John for reading some of your poems and giving us an insight to your deeper thoughts! And Brian's comma is safe with me.
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| Article in The Herald, 7 December 2015 |
The ECCA POETS to read at
The Wiles Gallery
Bathurst, Eastern Cape
on
Tuesday 15 December 2015
18:30 for 19:00
R30 covers refreshments
Poets to read: Cathal Lagan, Brian Walter, Norman Morrissey, Silke Heisse and, hopefully, Alvené du Plessis as well!
Books will be on sale for R100 each
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Three of the Ecca Poets to read at the
McGregor Poetry Festival
on the weekend of 27-30 August 2015 <<<
Silke Heiss & Norman Morrissey
Birds, Beasts, Flowers and More
Saturday, 29 August 12:30
D'Amphitheater
Lara Kirsten
Poetry: That Primal Pulse
Saturday, 29 August 15:30
Caritas
Silke Heiss & Norman Morrissey
Tryst to The Far Horizon
Saturday, 29 August 20:00
De Akker
For more info on the festival program click on the link <
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Three of the Ecca Poets to read in
Cape Town on
Monday 6 July 2015
Join Brian Walter, Lara Kirsten and Edward Burle at their reading at
Off the Wall Poetry Sessions at
Touch of Madness
12 Nuttall Road
Observatory
Cape Town
The ECCA poets' latest book Sound Piping is at the printers
so hopefully by the time of this reading in July we will be able to launch the book.
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...the poet proper
in all places, taking umbrage,
bringing politicians to task
with moody metaphors, offering
fluid solutions, pointing
departures from orthodoxy,
ringing in the new,
stretching …
stretching the leash.
- from Persona by Cathal Lagan
Ecca reading on Saturday, 15th November 2014
18:00 for 18:30
Wiles Gallery, Bathurst
Entry R20 covers refreshments
Books R80
Enquiries 045 962 1034/ 046 625 0340
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Ecca Poets - Cathal Lagan, Norman Morrissey, Brian Walter, Lara Kirsten and Silke Heiss read from their latest publication
at
The Rose
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18:30
The Rose Theatre
Starways Arts Centre, Hogsback
R40, including snacks
Books for sale at R80 each
Book by sms: Gwyneth 082 928 5770/Norman 082 794 4414
www.starways.org
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The ECCA poets will be reading at the WORDFEST at
The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
The Ecca poets, who have been writing and publishing since 1989, read from their latest book, This Questioning Terrain.
Free entry
Books R80
Tuesday 8 July 2014
Free entry
Books R80
Tuesday 8 July 2014
12:30
Seminar room 2
Eden Grove Building, Lucas Ave
(just below the Botanical Gardens)
Grahamstown
Eden Grove Building, Lucas Ave
(just below the Botanical Gardens)
Grahamstown
Two of the ECCA poets, Brian Walter and Norman Morrissey will also be hosting an open mic session, same day at 15:30 at the Launch Pad.
The next day, 9 July at 16:30 Brian Walter will be presenting a moving talk on his book Baakens, a poetic exploration of South Africa's divisions (including images by Mike Barwood & Michael Walter).
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reading and launch of
This Questioning Terrain
Brian Walter, Norman Morrissey, Silke Heiss
Cathal Lagan &
Alvené du Plessis
Thursday, 15 MAY 2014
18:30 for 19:00
Thursday, 15 MAY 2014
18:30 for 19:00
The Athenaeum, Belmont Terrace,
Central, Port Elizabeth
This Questioning Terrain will be Ecca's 16th volume.
Books will be on sale at R80.
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P O E T R Y R E A D I N G
by
The Ecca
Poets
Norman
Morrissey, Brian
Walter,
Cathal
Lagan, Quentin
Hogge,
Lara
Kirsten, Silke
Heiss
and
Alvené
du Plessis
The poets will be reading from their latest publication Unplanned Hour and from their new poems that will feature in the upcoming book to be released early 2014.
The poets will be reading from their latest publication Unplanned Hour and from their new poems that will feature in the upcoming book to be released early 2014.
18:30
for 19:00
Wiles
Gallery, Bathurst
R20 entry fee, includes refreshments
Books will also be available to buy - R80 per book
R20 entry fee, includes refreshments
Books will also be available to buy - R80 per book
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This an invitation to our book launch on 26 April 2013 in The Amathole Museum in King Williamstown.
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