Courtesy of Michaela Ridgway, we’re launching a new monthly poetry night to showcase established poets’ work and to amplify up-and-coming voices. All events and open mic opportunities will take place at Brighton’s Redroaster Coffee House.

Throughout 2012 Pighog Poetry Nights will be on the last Thursday of every month from February to December (except July & August). All events are doors 7.30 for 8pm and priced at £5. You can now buy tickets for the first event; tickets for the subsequent events will soon become available, so please watch this space.

For maximum value, why not treat yourself to a Thursday Pass? It offers entry to all nine of our Thursday events during 2012 and is priced at £25 (£20 concessions). Click here to purchase.

Timetable at-a-glance...

Thurs 23 February
With Jackie Wills, Katy Evans-Bush and guest host Robin Lawley.
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Thurs 29 March
With Maria Jastrzębska and Liz Berry.
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Thurs 26 April
With Hugh Dunkerley and Gary Goodman.

Thurs 24 May
With James Brookes, Ellen Zak and Kay Syrad (as part of Pighog on the Fringe)

Thurs 28 June
With John McCullough.

Thurs 27 September
With Charlotte Gann, Clare Best and Kim Lasky. All proceeds to support a breast cancer charity.

Thurs 25 October
With Antony Owen.

Thurs 29 November
With Brendan Cleary (as part of Pigbaby).

Thurs 27 December
Line-up to be confirmed.

Redroaster Coffee House
1d.‎ ‏St James‭’‬s Street
Brighton
BN2‭ ‬1RE

London Book Fair is the event which brings publishers from all over the world together to strut their stuff.

From Monday 16 - Wednesday 17 April Pighog will be represented on the Central Books stand at London Book Fair as well as meeting overseas publishers in the world’s largest International Rights Centre.

To celebrate our ten years and our presence at LBF we’re delighted to welcome Red Hen Press, our US partners in Los Angeles, to London for a day of collaborative Anglo-American events at Swedenborg House near the British Museum, on Monday 16 April, followed by unique Pighog book launches on Tuesday 17 April at the Prince of Teck, Earls Court.

Full details here

Pighog is running events at a number of venues in the last two weeks of May during Brighton Festival Fringe, including the following:

• Book of Invisible Bridges: Galician concrete poet Xelis de Toro's collaboration with visual artists
• Ciaran O'Driscoll's visionary debut novel A Year's Midnight, recounting a troubled writer's attempt to escape his demons by spending a year on an Italian farm
• New titles in our Sussex and Passports series from Bernadette Cremin and Robert Walton, plus Hallucinated Horse: New Latin American Poets!
• The Shed Show celebrating 10 years of Brighton's very own Shedman
• 25 May Relaunch of The Echo Room with original founding editor Brendan Cleary, plus the launch of Pelt by Sarah Jackson (Bloodaxe)
• And on 26 May we'll be running a special event with scriptwriter and dramatist Kevin Elyot interviewed by journalist Paul Hoggart to celebrate the life and work of the brilliant but under-rated Hassocks-based novelist Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)
• Plus we'll be preluding an entertaining pig's dinner of new spoken word performers

Last year's Pigbaby Brighton Poetry Festival ran over six days and was a sellout success.

Pigbaby created 6 nights of intimate and memorable readings, to the delight of large crowds of poetry fans.

This November, Lewis Caroll's porcine shape-shifter will once again be the figurehead for a programme of literary treats, running from Tuesday 27 November to Saturday 1 December.