Oooh, look! A free poetry open mic event at the Goat and Tricycle in Bournemouth on 26th April! Bring your best work to share with like-minded people, or find your next favourite read ... ditheringchaps.com/events-2-1/ty6…

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Dithering Chaps is proud to announce our April 2025 shortlist. If you want to be considered for our 2026 publication schedule, our submissions window is now open. Go to ditheringchaps.com/submissions now!

Dithering Chaps are proud to announce our April 2025 shortlist. Watch out for our next announcement in early June! If you want to be considered for our 2026 publication schedule, our submissions window is now open. Go to ditheringchaps.com/submissions now!

One week to go! Our FREE Open Mic event at the Goat and Tricycle, Bournemouth - next Saturday at 2pm, with a great line-up of poets to enjoy. And you can take part, too! Saturday 26 April 2025 14:00 15:30 Goat and Tricycle 27-29, West Hill Road, Bournemouth BH2 5PF

One week to go! Our FREE Open Mic event - Goat and Tricycle, Bournemouth - next Saturday at 2pm, with a great line-up of poets for you to enjoy. And you can take part, too! Saturday 26 April 2025 14:00 15:30 Goat & Tricycle, 27-29, West Hill Road, Bournemouth BH2 5PF

Indie publishing house, Dithering Chaps - headed up by lead editor and poet David Herring - will be hosting a FREE poetry open mic event. Saturday 26 April 2025 14:00 15:30 Goat and Tricycle, 27-29, West Hill Road, Bournemouth BH2 5PF See you there!

*FREE OPEN MIC POETRY EVENT!* Indie publishers, Dithering Chaps - SUBMISSIONS OPEN!, are hosting "Open Mic at the Goat and Trike" 2pm - 3.30pm, Saturday 26 April 2025 Goat and Tricycle, 27-29, West Hill Road, Bournemouth BH2 5PF Come and show us what you've got!

We had a great weekend at the Festival - we met many poets & had a ball networking, listening to poetry & writing! If you'd like us to consider your work for publication, please go to our website & follow the link to the Submissions page to find out more. ditheringchaps.com/submissions

Among other things we got up to at the Bournemouth Writing Festival, we held our own event to celebrate last year's competition winner, Helen Kay, and collected some money for crowdfunder to support Vita Nova. You can still donate here: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/viva-vita-no…

5 outstanding, unique poets, from Spain, the US & the UK, have made it onto the Dithering Chaps April shortlist. We're posting a little sample from each. First up, Natasha Kerry Smith, reading from her hallucinogenic poem, 'Algeciras'. Let us know what you think below ...

We are making 5 films, showcasing our shortlisted poets. It's a tough decision to choose one of them to publish, and we'd love your help! Let us know what you think of them, below. Here's the first, the charismatic Natasha Kerry Smith, reading part of her poem, Algeciras.

Five outstanding poets, each with their own unique style, from Spain, the US and the UK, have made it onto the Dithering Chaps April shortlist. Here's our second poet, Leanne Moden, reading from her sibylline poem, 'Scapulomancy' Let us know what you think in the comments...

We are making five films, showcasing our five shortlisted poets. It's a tough decision to choose one of them to publish, and we'd love your help! Let us know what you think of them, below. Here's the mystical Leanne Moden, reading part of her poem, Scapulimancy.

Five outstanding poets, each with their own unique style, from Spain, the US and the UK, have made it onto the Dithering Chaps April shortlist. Here's our third poet, the often-surreal Nell Farrell, reading from her poem, 'Escape'. Let us know what you think in the comments ...

We are making five films, showcasing our shortlisted poets. It's a tough decision to choose one of them to publish, & we'd love your help! Let us know what you think of them. Here's the third in the series, the sometimes-surreal Nell Farrell, reading part of her poem, Escape.

Five outstanding poets, each with their own unique style, from Spain, the US and the UK, have made it onto the Dithering Chaps April shortlist. Our fourth shortlisted poet, Christopher James, reads from his Antarctic odyssey, The Ice Sonnets. The poem is called 'Freeze Frame'.

On Saturday, 31st May, the Long Poem Magazine is launching its next issue at the Barbican. Dithering Chaps (David and Gena Herring) will be performing David's poem, Carbon Clumps (which is being published in Issue 33) at the launch. longpoemmagazine.org.uk/launch-of-issu…

We are making five films, showcasing our shortlisted poets. It's a tough decision to choose one of them to publish - tell us what you think! Here's Christopher James, reading part of his poem, Freeze Frame, from his Antarctic odyssey, The Ice Sonnets.