An image of a figure in a suit. It appears to have a bowling ball for a head. Text reads: PASTA, 21st April, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton. This month's theme: sheer unspeakable strangeness.
Have you had YOUR helping of PASTA?
You should. You really should. 😎
An image of a figure in a suit. It appears to have a bowling ball for a head. Text reads: PASTA, 21st April, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton. This month's theme: sheer unspeakable strangeness.
Have you had YOUR helping of PASTA?
You should. You really should. 😎
The world needs cake. 😊
Tomorrow evening!!
An image of a figure in a suit. It appears to have a bowling ball for a head. Text reads: PASTA, 21st April, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton. This month's theme: sheer unspeakable strangeness.
One week today (but not at seven in the morning) PASTA returns to the Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton. Our friendly open-mic night with a themed first half. This month's theme? Sheer unspeakable strangeness. Which we're asking you to speak about, obviously. 🙃
If you're in Wolverhampton next Thursday, make sure you get to this! 👇
Next Thursday, at Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre you get TWO one-person shows from pandemonialists! @emmapurshouse.bsky.social and @davethepitt.bsky.social will each be performing their full-length Fringe shows. Get your tickets here: wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... 😊
White text on an orange background. Text reads: poetry and nature
Last weekend, @emmapurshouse.bsky.social and @bigstevepoet.bsky.social led a poetry 'walkshop' in a Walsall nature reserve. Read all about it! pandemonialists.substack.com/p/poetry-and...
A pink-and-yellow poster, with an image of a smiling woman in a headscarf. Text reads: Yes, We Cant online Zoom event, featuring Abeer Ameer, winner of Forward Prize for best single poem 2025; shortlisted for Wales book of the year 2022. PAYF event. Sunday 5th April, 7.30pm.
We've just sent our open mic poets the Zoom link for Sunday's Yes We Cant, which is going to be amazing! If you'd like to join our audience, drop us a line. 😊
This Sunday, folks! 😊 All open-mic spots now filled, btw.
White text on an orange background. Text reads: PASTA March 2026. There's a smell in the air.
Thanks to @davethepitt.bsky.social for writing this Substack about our March helping of PASTA. 😊 pandemonialists.substack.com/p/pasta-marc...
A pink-and-yellow poster, with an image of a smiling woman in a headscarf. Text reads: Yes, We Cant online Zoom event, featuring Abeer Ameer, winner of Forward Prize for best single poem 2025; shortlisted for Wales book of the year 2022. PAYF event. Sunday 5th April, 7.30pm.
Next Sunday's Yes We Cant is a purely online one, and we're delighted to be bringing you two feature poets from Wales. Headliner Abeer Ameer, and 'Alf Ender Pat Edwards. Drop us a line to join our audience. Or to nab one of the two remaining open-mic spots. :)
We're running a poetry walkshop on Saturday morning: a stroll round a local nature reserve on the western edge of Walsall borough, and an opportunity to write short poems inspired by what we see. And it's free! Sign up via the link below. 😊
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-and-w...
A pink-and-yellow poster, with an image of a smiling woman in a headscarf. Text reads: Yes, We Cant online Zoom event, featuring Abeer Ameer, winner of Forward Prize for best single poem 2025; shortlisted for Wales book of the year 2022. PAYF event. Sunday 5th April, 7.30pm.
Two weeks today, we are delighted to be welcoming Abeer Ameer as our Yes We Cant headliner. Still a couple of open-mic spots left. Drop us a line if you want to join our audience. 😊
Fancy a walk through a Walsall nature reserve and an opportunity to write poetry about what you see and hear? And for free? March 28th. Book here.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-and-w...
Fancy a walk through a Walsall nature reserve and an opportunity to write poetry about what you see and hear? And for free? March 28th. Book here.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-and-w...
PASTA, this Tuesday. Will it register on the Beaufort scale? Come along and find out! 😊
An image of a man's face. He's got long hair and a beard, he's wearing glasses, and he's pulling a face. Text reads: PASTA, 17th March, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton. This month's theme: farts.
Some of our events are highbrow. Occasionally, they... aren't. PASTA, next Tuesday. 😉
A blue and green poster with a photo of a woman at a mic. White text reads: Emma Purshouse presents 'Unsung', an evening of poetry and chat. March's guest is poet, performer, creative, and event organiser Ann Grant. 7-8pm Thursday 12th March. For a space in the Zoom room contact emmaasif@hotmail.com This will be a pay-as-you-feel event.
Tomorrow evening, @emmapurshouse.bsky.social will be hosting another episode of 'Unsung', where she chats with a poet who doesn't always get the attention they deserve. Tomorrow, it's Cumbrian poet Ann Grant. See the poster for details of how to get the Zoom link. 😊
A poster with a mauve background (I think it's mauve – I'm not very good at identifying that range of colours correctly). An ice-cream cone is upside-down, with its contents melting. Text reads: This Could've Gone Better. A new play, written and performed by Aimee Gebhard
Another great Arena Nights this evening. We're building something really special here. Thanks to everyone who came along, and special thanks to Aimee Gebhard for bringing her show to Wolverhampton.
An image of a man's face. He's got long hair and a beard, he's wearing glasses, and he's pulling a face. Text reads: PASTA, 17th March, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton. This month's theme: farts.
In an hour or so, we'll be at Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre for the latest Arena Nights. In one week's time, we'll be back there for a helping of PASTA. A helping with quite the first-half theme.... 🙄
Tonight! Tonight! Tonight!
The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.
This is tomorrow night. And it's going to be amazing. 😊
This Tuesday, folks! 😊
This Tuesday, folks! 😊
Text on a building in Luton saying 'If you can dream it you must do it'
Flying flamingo sculpture in Luton
Street art of flamingos and a sparkly sculpture in Luton.
Street art on the side of a building that reads 'the future demands your participation' and below it orange cut out lettering standing on the street reading Luton.
2/ And I LOVED Don Diego & the Good Fairy. My fellow @pandemonialists.bsky.social @bigstevepoet.bsky.social and @davethepitt.bsky.social were both brilliant.
Luton have flamingoes (so I did my flamingo poem), and they have lovely street art...
A poster with a green background. On one side is an image of a poet sitting writing in their notebook. On the other side, white text reads: Emma Purshouse poetry gigs, March and April 2026. Utter, Luton 05/3; KTeas, Wolverhampton 07/3; Stourbridge 08/3; Dudley 14/3; Ledbury 27/3; Willenhall (walkshop) 28/3; Arena Theatre, Wolves 16/4; Caffe Grande, Dudley 30/4
Want to know where @emmapurshouse.bsky.social is gigging over the next couple of months? Well, you're in luck... 😊
A poster with a mauve background (I think it's mauve – I'm not very good at identifying that range of colours correctly). An ice-cream cone is upside-down, with its contents melting. Text reads: This Could've Gone Better. A new play, written and performed by Aimee Gebhard
One week today, we're back at Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton for the latest episode of Arena Nights. This month, our full-length Fringe show is "This Could've Gone Better" by Aimee Gebhard. A PAYF event. See you there! 😊
Jeff Phelps review of 'Unsung' by @emmapurshouse.bsky.social takes stock of this embodied collection which responds with love and attention to Wolverhampton's history and people.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jeff-phelps-....
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