Eb & Flo on The Beach

Name: Eb & Flo on The Beach
Start: 2025-09-05T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Two Sisters Arts Centre

Schedule

Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Two Sisters Arts Centre | Felixstowe, EN

Tickets £12 01394 279613 www.ticketsource.co.uk/two-sisters-arts-centre
Ebenezer and Florence in: Eb and Flo on the Beach.
A poetry reading/performance with sound and music. Eb and Flo meet on The Beach of Infinite Possibilities. Two somewhat Becketian characters waiting for the tide. To come in? To go out? They’re not sure and neither are we. As they wait they gather up the poems and songs that wash up from the unpath’d waters to the undream’d shore and try to fashion something out of them, their poetic exchanges ebbing and flowing, overlapping and tangential, cohering and refracted. Poetry in flux, rippling with magic, mythology and fable.
A musician bobbing by stops to lend a hand.
With Roger West, Lynne Nesbit, Paul Gunn
http://www.rogerwestmusic.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/rogerwestmusic
paulgunn.net
Roger West began his creative life as the singer, songwriter and front-person for a number of pre/post-punk bands: Cats Like Plain Crisps, Billy Goat Gruff, Inside Leg, until he was forced to get a proper job. He carried on writing songs, releasing several
recordings made at Blue Studios in Glasgow and then spent some time in Austin Texas where he put together a band, Roger West & His Own Worst Enemies, which included Ian McLagan of The Small Faces, for recording and concerts, playing a style of music he called'Acid Tongue-and-Groove'. A kind of revelation came when he realised that he had a number of offcuts from his songs that were the makings of poems and began writing poetry. Based in Glasgow, he also has a presence in France; he writes in French and in English and translates poetry from and via French into English for dual-language readings on the stage. He is a poète-animateur for the festivals Les Mots du Vent in Narbonne and La Parole Poétique in Brittany. His most recent collection, 'Hommages Sémaphoriques’ was published by Editions Sémaphore, Quimperlé, in March 2025.
Lynne Nesbit has been writing for almost half a century. The second half. Prompted by the birth of her second son and her love of the English language, she has been doing what poets do - seeing what others don't, living life the way others don't and writing down her unseen discoveries. She is continually surprised by them and by her writing, which she put to good use while working for an animal charity for almost 30 years. She has three poetry collections so far: 'Looking For Lamp-Posts' (DPdotcom 2014), 'In The Wake Of Dying' (Beccles Books 2017) and 'The Ecstasy of Nature The Nature of Ecstasy' (Eye Wild Books 2024). She is occasionally commissioned by artists to write to their paintings and sculptures and then perform them in galleries.
Paul Gunn is a jazz pianist who plays regularly at festivals and other events in the UK and Europe. His group The Paul Gunn Collective includes Helen Thomas, lead cellist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and other musicians who have played with Van Morrison, Ian Dury, Wynton Marsalis and Burt Bacaharach. He writes the music for the group and has developed a unique and distinctive style of cello-led jazz-baroque. His most recent recordings are ' A Beekeeper's Garden' (2019), ’The Ludwig Suite' (2023) and ‘Crystal Mornings’ (2025). Paul trained in theatre arts in Paris and has worked as an actor and mime artist. Before that and in his younger years, he was a professional gymnast. He has an understanding of the importance of the spaces, the breaths and the silences that are an
integral part of music, which makes him an intuitive improviser and collaborator in his work with spoken-word artists.