Toria Garbutt at The Ferret Preston

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Website: https://enjoyshow.co.uk/

Toria Garbutt’s brutally honest poetry mixed with an extraordinary stage presence has made her one of the UK’s most loved poets.
Since bursting onto the scene in 2014, she has been a regular tour support for Dr John Cooper Clarke.
In 2016, Toria released her Debut album 'Hot Plastic Moon’ via spoken word label Nymphs and Thugs and in 2018 her first poetry collection ‘The Universe and Me' published by Wrecking Ball Press.
The poet’s words have also been featured in Not Too Tame’s Northern Souls show at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and in The Guardian for their feature on ‘The Rise and Rise of the New Poets’.
Toria has worked with young people and prisoners, relaying the importance of having your voice heard no matter what your background and using poetry to turn pain into purpose.

Reviews
“Toria's words are silk javelins. Frank explorations of self, outpourings of a joyfully pained mind. She means it. Cos she's lived it. I love that girl” Mike Garry
“Powerful, accessible, intelligent and musical. Just about all the things I love in a poet” Professor Benjamin Zephaniah
“The lyrical machine gun” Matt Abbott
“Rendered unemployed by Arkwright’s spinning Jenny at twelve years old. No wonder she’s a Luddite. Happily, she turned to the pen, with astonishing results. Ladies and gentlemen I give you, our mellifluous girl from the mills, Toria Garbutt” Dr John Cooper Clarke
“Toria Garbutt is an utterly extraordinary poet, with a rich soul, hard kick and the biggest heart. In live performance she has an exquisite effect on the listener, she made me blush once and I am still blushing thinking about it now” Salena Godden
“The most exciting poet I’ve seen in years” Mark Grist
“I love her stuff” Hollie McNish

Price: £10.00

Time: 8:00pm (Doors open 7pm)