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VENUE: Beacon Hub Meeting Room
DATE: Saturday 27th September TIMES: 11- 12.30pm PRICE: Free BOOKING: No booking necessary to listen. Registration rquired to participate in open mic. |
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CAUTION, LIVE POETS! A BRILLIANT SESSION OF READINGS BY INVITED POETS PLUS THE FAMOUS POETS’ OPEN MIC! SIGN UP TO READ YOUR WORK IN A FRIENDLY, ENCOURAGING ENVIRONMENT. OPEN TO ALL.
Compèred by the incomparable Ben Banyard, these sessions are always a popular way to spend an hour or two during the festival. This year, we have readings by invited poets Maunagh Kelly and Bob Walton, plus Ben himself will kick off the Open Mic session. For more info on each of our wonderful featured writers, and our most excellent Master of Ceremonies, check out their bios further down the page.
Compèred by the incomparable Ben Banyard, these sessions are always a popular way to spend an hour or two during the festival. This year, we have readings by invited poets Maunagh Kelly and Bob Walton, plus Ben himself will kick off the Open Mic session. For more info on each of our wonderful featured writers, and our most excellent Master of Ceremonies, check out their bios further down the page.
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DID I JUST SAY THAT OUT LOUD?
POETRY OPEN MIC ARTPORT once again invites budding poets of all ages and experience to stand up and read a piece of their own work in an encouraging and friendly environment. This is a great opportunity to gain experience of reading your work to an audience - perhaps for the first time. Whether you are an experienced performer, or sharing your work for the first time, we welcome you to sign up, cone along and say it out loud! Time available is limited, so if you would like to read please contact Ben Banyard by email here: |
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Ben Banyard is a poet and editor based in Portishead. He has published three collections of his work, often featuring aspects of life in our beautiful, friendly town. Ben also edits Black Nore Review, an online journal publishing poetry and flash fiction by people at all stages of their writing journey.
If you would like to read a poem or two, please email Ben at [email protected] You can find out more about Ben at his website - https://benbanyard.wordpress.com |
Maunagh Kelly left school at 16 but later studied the oboe at The Royal Northern in Manchester, where she went on to work in orchestras and also became part of the 80s Hacienda music scene.
She started writing poetry while in Manchester and has been widely published in various magazines and placed in the top three in many competitions, including winning the Canterbury Poetry Prize. She moved to Bristol in the early 2000s. She had a fallow period, poetry-wise, during which time she worked as a portrait artist and wrote three novels but in recent years she has been drawn back to poetry. Maunagh’s new pamphlet is published by Red Guitar press – it’s called Picking Up Light and was launched last year. |
Bob Walton is no stranger to Portishead: he taught at Gordano School for 18 happy years, way back in the 20th century, from 1982-2000. Three times winner of the North American Festival of Wales Poetry Prize, he has a PhD in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, where he taught the subject until 2022. Bob’s a member of The Spoke poetry collective, runs the popular Under the Red Guitar poetry night in Bristol and co-runs the online Chapter One Creative Writing Group in association with North Somerset’s Super Culture. His second collection, Sax Burglar Blues, is published by Seren Books and his third is in preparation.
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