My critically acclaimed, chaotic, audience-led poetry is back, for the first time in Edinburgh. It’s deeply personal and usually hilarious, I opens up my personal writing archive in this interactive show where you the audience call the shots!
Time / 8pm / TIX / £15/12/10/5
Date / Oct 4 / Book from here.
Venue / Traverse Theatre.
Add / 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED,
My critically acclaimed, chaotic, audience-led poetry is back, for the first time in Newcastle. It’s deeply personal and usually hilarious, I opens up my personal writing archive in this interactive show where you the audience call the shots!
Time / 8pm / TIX / £112
Date / Oct 5 / Book from here.
Venue / Northern Stage, Barras Bridge
Add / Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RH
Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets.
Join us for an evening of electric poetry and vital verse celebrating the anthology, Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets. Founded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, Complete Works Poetry was a revolutionary initiative that transformed the UK poetry scene. Supporting 30 diverse poets over 12 years, the programme has produced a wealth of distinctive voices (from Raymond Antrobus to Warsan Shire) and over 40 poetry collections between them, including three Forward Prizes, two T.S. Eliot Prizes and two Ted Hughes Awards. Poets performing at this special Manchester celebration include Malika Booker, Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe, Ian Humphreys, Adam Lowe and poet and translator Eileen Pun.
Presented in partnership with Speaking Volumes and Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Sarah Howe photo credit: Hayley Madden. Inua Ellams photo credit: Adama Jalloh. Adam Lowe photo credit: Drew Wilby
Time / 7pm / TIX / £14/10
Date / Oct 11 / Book from here.
Venue / Contact Theatre, Manchester*
This event will be BSL interpreted.
I’m running a workshop… Soft Curses and Weakness Workshop
There are several things that drive a writer to pick up a pen. A lot of the time we are searching for safety, not only to contend with and accept ourselves, but to transform what scares us into art and a sturdy bridge we hope the world will meet us on. In this intimate workshop, poet and playwright Inua Ellams will do just that. Drawing from musicians and poets Chance The Rapper and Jamila Woods, we will find ways to articulate and reinvent our soft curses and weakness into sharp and lyrical weapons.
Presented in partnership with Speaking Volumes and Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University. When and where: 13:00 – 15:00, Saturday, 12 October 2024 Tickets: £15
Time / 1pm - 3pm / TIX / £15
Date / Oct 12 / Book from here.
Venue / Manchester Poetry Library
Add / Grosvenor East Building, Cavendish Street M15 6BG