Doors open at 8pm for an 8:30pm start. Tickets are £5 or £4 for concessions (and open mic readers!) Tickets available here or on the door.

Don’t forget – it’s a night for reading your favourite poem (written by another poet!)

Vanessa Lampert’s work is most recently published in Magma, The Moth, The Oxford Times, Finished Creatures, Five Dials (Hamish Hamilton), Poetry Wales, The London Magazine, Under the Radar, Oxford Poetry and Strix. She runs workshops nationwide for adults and as a volunteer in schools. During the pandemic she taught poetry to schoolchildren in India via Zoom.

In 2023 she was commissioned to write the lyrics for an Unthanks song dedicated to the NHS and performed on their winter tour.

Since 2020 Vanessa has won the Café Writers prize, the Edward Thomas prize, the Sentinel prize and the Ver Poetry prize (twice). She has been placed in many other prizes including being commended in the Troubadour, Magma, Bridport, Verve, and National Poetry Competitions.

Vanessa’s full collection ‘Say It With Me’ was published by Seren in 2023. Poems from the collection have been published in the Daily Telegraph poem of the week and the Forward Prizes anthology 2024.