Get comfy & settle in to a relaxed evening of poetry from the comfort of your own space via Zoom. Simply kick back with a mug of whatever you're drinking & take in some great words & maybe scribble some of your own whilst you're at it!
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Blankets, nightcaps & PJ's welcome. Yes please!
8.00pm Intro & settle in.
8.10pm Open Mic
8.40pm BREAK
8.50pm Special Guest
9.10pm Q+A
Bed by 9.30pm 🛌 😴
Laurie x
✨ 📚 Special GUEST this month Hollie McNish
Liz Berry is an award-winning poet and author of the critically acclaimed collections Black Country, The Republic of Motherhood and The Home Child, a novel in verse. Liz’s work, described as “a sooty soaring hymn to her native West Midlands” (Guardian), has received the Somerset Maugham Award, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Writers' Prize and two Forward Prizes. Her poem ‘Homing’, a love poem for the language of the Black Country, is part of the GCSE English syllabus. Liz lives in Birmingham with her partner and their two sons.
www.lizberrypoetry.co.uk
Instgram @misslizberry
Laurie Bolger is a London-based writer and founder of The Creative Writing Breakfast Club. Her debut pamphlet Box Rooms (Burning Eye) has featured at Glastonbury, TATE, RA & Sky Arts.
Laurie’s writing has appeared in The Poetry Review, The London Magazine, Magma, Crannog, Stand, and Trinity College Icarus, and her poems and short stories have been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, Live Canon, Winchester and Sylvia Plath Prizes. In 2023, Laurie’s poem ‘Parkland Walk’ was awarded The Moth Prize, judged by Louise Glück, and Highly Commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry.
Laurie runs Poetry & Nice Things her sustainable creative market stall & this year she has published three pamphlets of poetry ' Box Rooms' with Burning Eye Books, ‘Spin' with Smith|Doorstop & ‘Makeover’ with The Emma Press. Her debut collection Lady is being published this year with Nine Arches Press.
www.lauriebolger.com
Instagram @lauriebolger_ | Twitter @lauriebolger
