SOUNDBITES – Monthly Poetry Open Mic Event

Live in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen!

Readings by a different local published poet each month and this month it’s CHRIS SINGLETON

Chris is a queer and neurodiverse poet, play write and Artistic Director of Brave Words (www.bravewords.co.uk).

He is currently touring his debut show How To Be a Better Human (“a refreshing message in a likeable, low-key spoken word show” – Lyn Gardner, The Stage) off the back of a successful Edinburgh Fringe run with Summerhall (**** – The Wee Review, Ed Fringe Review).

In 2021 Chris’ debut poetry collection The Kidnapping of Self-Kindness was published by Indigo dreams. He was shortlisted for Best Spoken Word Performer and Best Spoken Word
Show at the Saboteur Awards 2022 for the Birds of Paradise Exceptional Theatre Award and has most recently been shortlisted for the Lancaster Playwriting Prize.

His writing has been described as “candid, unafraid, harrowing, startling and compassionate in all the best ways” (Dawn Bauling, Indigo Dreams).

Chris writes about growing up in a working class Yorkshire town with a strong sense of place and an unerring sense of hope. His poetry covers all the good stuff – grief, sex,
neurodiversity, underage drinking and poking dead things on the beach. He’d like to be compared to Guy Garvey or Jarvis Cocker, but he’s probably more of an anxious poetry ewok.

We supply the mic – you supply the poetry

Put your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come, first served) or just come along and listen.

Open mic name listing from 6.30pm

Event begins with guest poet at 7.00pm

Everyone welcome. Free (donation appreciated).