Category: Poetry Readings

ENVOI I tried to open your gate. It was huge,an oblong snug in the wall, covered in curlsand blisters of thick green paint, and creaked a bit but wouldn’t budge from its…

LEANNE MODEN Leanne Moden is a poet, theatremaker and educator, from Nottingham. She’s been performing poetry for over fourteen years, and she was a semi-finalist at the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam in…

Join your host with the most* Neil Fulwood for an evening of poetry, politics, proselytising and probably a few more things starting with P. *The most what we’re not sure. CAE CAPURRO…

‘If Anais Nin and Shane Meadows met at a bar to write prose and poems it may well end up like this. An awareness of vulnerability is a strength that Hannah Teasdale…

Released 31st May, 2024 // 120 pages // 978-1-916938-19-9 // RRP £11.99 All Empty Vessels is an urgent, emotional commentary on what it is to exist in our contemporary world. Aaron Kent…

ALAN BAKER Alan Baker was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and has lived in Nottingham since 1985, where he has been editor of the poetry publisher Leafe Press for the last twenty years, and editor…

Fiona Robertson began writing poetry in 2013. In 2019 she was a top ten finalist in the Nottingham round of the UNESCO City of Literature Slamovision poetry slam. She has been a…

CLAIRE MEYRICK Claire Meyrick (nee Hancock) is originally from East Anglia and now resides in West Bridgford ,Nottingham. She is a writer, spoken-word performer and singer. Claire has performed in a number…

Next reading is 2 May 2023 – Martin Stannard & Jo Dixon  ’27 Poems’ is what it says on the tin: 27 short poems – twelve and a half lines each, to…

Yes the open book is open again….. A star-studded jamboree of wordy rappinhoodness… Your Commisar Neil Fulwood Joined by Sue Dymoke https://suedymokepoetry.com/ Sofi Tahira https://bones-of-a-girl.blogspot.com/ Caroline Stancer https://writingeastmidlands.co.uk/caroline-stancer/

In a change to the advertised programme, Roy Marshall will be joining Sonia Burns at next week’s Open Book event. Our original co-headliner Di Slaney will hopefully be appearing at a future…