Barbed Ink
This event on 27th October 2023 at 19:30 has past.
Open Mic Event
Contact: Caynwhite7@gmail.com
Barbed Ink returns to Dukes in Halifax for our third event featuring our very special guests Matt Abbott and Naoise Gale.
Matt Abbott is a poet from Wakefield. His début solo show 'Two Little Ducks' explored the working-class Leave vote against the backdrop of his experiences volunteering at a Calais refugee camp. The show earned 5* reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and on a 2018 UK theatre tour. The show's poems were published by Verve in 2018.
Matt's debut kids' poetry collection 'A Hurricane in my Head' was published by Bloomsbury in 2019. It was a National Poetry Day selected title.
Notable commissions include TV ads for Nationwide Building Society as well as Mercedes-Benz, Kellogg's, Cancer Research UK, and Leeds United FC.
He is an ambassador for Eureka, founding owner of Nymphs & Thugs, and lyricist/frontman for Skint & Demoralised.
Naoise Gale is a poet from Huddersfield who writes about mental illness and addiction. She was runner-up in the AUB International Poetry Prize prize 2023, and first-prize winner of the Ledbury Poetry Competition 2022.
Her debut panthlet After the Flood Comes the Apologies was published by Nine Pens and has recently been longlisted in the Poetry Book Awards 2023.
She'll be selling copies of her pamphlet at the event, and you can also buy it on the Nine Pens website: https://ninepens.co.uk/shop#!/products/after-the-flood-comes-the-apologies---naoise-gale
Naoise is currently studying an MA in Creative Writing Poetry at the University of East Anglia and is working on her first full-length collection.
Open mic slots available too, please email Caynwhite7@gmail.com to book a slot.
Compered by Cayn White
Entry: Pay as you feel
Time: 7:30pm (Doors 19:30 for 20:00 start )
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