Live in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen!

Readings by a different local published poet each month, and this month we’re delighted to welcome ROB MILES

Rob Miles is from Devon, and he has lived in Leeds. He is Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Leeds. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and multiple anthologies, and he has won various competitions including the Philip Larkin Prize, judged by Don Paterson, the Resurgence International Ecopoetry Prize, judged by Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott, and the Poets & Players Prize, judged by Sinéad Morrissey.

His collection, Dimmet, is published 2024 by Broken Sleep Books. Of Dimmet, Katharine Towers notes: ‘These are poems of great precision and delicacy’; Lucy Newlyn describes it as ‘[t]he best collection of contemporary poetry I have read in a long while’, and John Glenday writes: ‘When it’s done as well as this, there’s nowhere on earth poetry can’t go.’

OPEN MIC

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)