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Irish poet Judymay Murphy lives in London and performs her poetry on stages all around the world including at the annual UNICEF Galas in London and Vienna. She’s a double graduate of Trinity College Dublin’s Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama … Continue reading →

Alice Gretton is an award winning spoken word artist, painting tapestries with words and performance. Kent’s poet for National Poetry Day 2019. Alice has won the United Kingdom Young Artist award, received mentoring from Canterbury’s Poet Laureate Lemn Sissay, and … Continue reading →

Here are the coming themes (feel free to ignore them!) and special guest poets! Sept 1st — Summer’s End — no guest, entirely open micSept 8th — Space — Alice GrettonSept 15th — Roads — Judymay MurphySept 22nd — Obsession … Continue reading →

Unfortunately the 28th July SpokenWord has had to be cancelled due to illness. So the summer break is starting a little earlier than planned. SpokenWord will start up again Monday 1st September at the Chat Noir. Cheers all, David Barnes

Emmet O’Brien burst into the scene in March 2017, and has done more than your average 25 year old. Within the first 3 years alone he released a book, entitled “A Perspective From The Corrupt Mind Of The Youth” aswell … Continue reading →

Heidi Seaborn is the author of three books of poetry, tic tic tic, (September 2025), An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, Give a Girl Chaos, and three chapbooks, Bite Marks, Once a Diva and Finding My Way Home. She’s won or been shortlisted for over sixty prizes, including … Continue reading →

Skye Jackson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has appeared in RHINO, The Southern Review, Palette Poetry, RATTLE and elsewhere. Her poetry has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize, the RHINO Founders’ Prize, and in 2021 she received the AWP Intro Journals Award. … Continue reading →

Alex Vellis (they/them) is a Greek-British artist specialising in poetry and installation. They hold an MA in Creative Writing and are Open School East alum. Vellis’ work questions liminality, ergodic literature, the benthic, identity, place, and presentation. Their practice focuses on … Continue reading →

Josh Cake is a poet from Melbourne, Australia who now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with publications including Breakwater Review, Teesta Review, Paris Lit Up, The Anti-Misogyny Club, and Cordite. Josh has won the Peseroff Poetry Prize from the University of Massachusetts, was named the Most Impactful … Continue reading →

Helen Cusack O’Keeffe is a writer and social worker based primarily in Paris since 2009. Publications can be found in the Bastille, Tightrope Press (Canada), Stoneskin Press (London), and Le Farming Times. Plays include Holey Tuscany, an absurdist maritime tragedy,  Napoleon, Femme, Rhinocéros, a bilingual Surrealist … Continue reading →