£10 + Booking Fee. Doors 7pm. Show 8pm.
A rip-roaring intro to some of the very best spoken word acts on the UK's thriving scene. This is poetry as you've never seen it before, presented by Maria Ferguson (Saboteur Award Winner) & Matt Abbott (Nymphs & Thugs, Skint & Demoralised).
Previous headliner Jasmine Gardosi unfortunately has come down with a case of Covid and so won't be able to attend. In her place we have the fabulous NAFEESA HAMID.
NAFEESA HAMID is a writer, workshop facilitator, performer, and creative producer active since 2012. She was born in Pakistan, bred in Birmingham. Her debut poetry collection Besharam (2018, Verve Poetry Press) was highly commended for the Forward Prizes 2019. She is subsequently published in the Forward Book of Poetry 2020 (2019, Faber Poetry), as well as Forward Poems of the Decade 2011-2020 (2021, Faber Poetry). She is also published in The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, a (2017, Saqi Books) anthology edited by Sabrina Mahfouz.
LOUISE FAZACKERLEY: Introducing poet-extraordinaire and theatre-maker, Louise Fazackerley! Coming to you fresh from the exotic Northern streets of Orwell’s Wigan. She tells darkly humorous stories of hope and hurt. With work rooted in word-witchery and the working class, Louise explores the synergy between poetry and movement in a way that makes the ugly beautiful and the mundane fantastical. Winner of BBC Radio 3 ‘New Voices’, European Slam Finalist, she’s also been on tour with John Cooper Clarke. Louise is excited to share work from her new, darkly humorous dystopian book ‘The Lolitas’ and poems from 'Bird St', A collection sharing the last ten years of her performance poetry.