Rosie Jackson + Claire Dyer + open mic – 8th March 2024
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. Rosie Jackson is a poet and creative writing tutor living in Teignmouth, Devon. Of her recent poetry collection, Love Leans over the Table (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Kim Moore writes: ‘There is a restless energy […]
Locals’ night! With Claire Dyer, Katie Meehan and Antonia Taylor + Jez Dyer – 12th April 2024
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. Antonia Taylor is a British Cypriot communications strategist and poet. Her work has appeared in Propel, Ambit, Harana, Marble Magazine, Dear Reader, and Indelible Literary Journal among others.She is a Nine Arches Primers 2023 finalist. […]
Tim Tim Cheng + open mic -10th May
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. Tim Tim Cheng is a poet and a teacher from Hong Kong, currently based between Edinburgh and London. Her pamphlet Tapping At Glass (VERVE, 2023) explores womanhood, multilingualism, and psychogeography. Her […]
Andrew Jamison + Vic Pickup + open mic – 14th June 2024
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. Andrew Jamison was born in Co. Down, Northern Ireland in 1986. Having studied for his BA in London, and the MLitt in Creative Writing at St Andrews, he’s published two collections […]
Dawn Gorman + open mic – 12th July 2024
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. Dawn Gorman presents West Wilts Radio’s The Poetry Place, is poetry editor of Caduceus, works with writing in therapeutic contexts, and is a poetry tutor and mentor. She works closely with other writers […]
Covers night! Vanessa Lampert + open mic – 9th August 2024
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, […]
Rogue Strands special! Matthew Stewart + Mat Riches + open mic – 13th September 2024
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. Mat Riches is from Norfolk, but lives in Beckenham. He has previously worked in a plastics factory, a variety of pubs, and a book wholesaler, but currently works in market research […]
Phoebe Stuckes + Katie Meehan + open mic – 11th October 2024
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. Phoebe Stuckes is a writer from Somerset. Her writing has appeared in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, The North and Ambit among others. Her pamphlet, Gin & Tonicwas published by The […]
Carl Tomlinson + Vic Pickup + open mic – 8th November 2024
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. Carl Tomlinson lives on a smallholding in rural Oxfordshire. His work’s appeared in Orbis, South, The Alchemy Spoon, The Hope Valley Journal, Spelt, and several anthologies. In 2019 his poem Market […]
Susie Campbell + open mic – 13th December 2024
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. Susie Campbell has a PhD in poetic practice. Her poetry publications include I return to you (2019), Tenter (2020), Enclosures (2021) and The Sleeping Place (2023). Her poetry and critical writing […]