Featuring Gareth Culshaw, Mary Cunningham and Emma Purshouse.
*Hosted by Jean Atkin, this event starts at 7pm, with doors opening from 6.15pm for drinks, nibbles, and conviviality.
*Please bring £3 cash to put in the hat to cover the costs of the evening.
*There will be a limited number of open mics – sign up on the night 
*The suggestion is to wear something warm – the Market building can get chilly after hours!*
Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists present the annual Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Slam. Join your MCs, Steve Pottinger, Dave Pitt and Emma Purshouse for a slamtastic Saturday.
Witness 15 poets battle it out in a live poetry competition to become slam champion for 2022. Come along and be bedazzled by bardic bravery, whoop for your favourite wordsmith.
Who wins? The audience decides.
In person and livestream tickets both available here:
https://wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873641706/events/129466187
A new series of spoken word events. Open mic sign-up on the night.
Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger will be performing poetry for Saturday Books’ Poetry Breakfast. Later in the day there will be a Christmas Fair in the bookshop, so why not come along and make a day of it.
Emma will be signing copies of her new poetry collection ‘It’s Honorary, Bab’. This book is part diary extracts and part poems that detail Emma’s time spent as the first Poet Laureate for the City of Wolverhampton. Also to buy on the day will be Emma’s first poetry collection ‘Close’ and her novel ‘Dogged’. A great opportunity to get Christmas presents for the readers in your life.
Emma will be featuring for Keele Readings. FREE event. All welcome.
contact arts@keele.ac.uk
01782 734340
https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/events/2022/november/emmapurshouse-keelereadings/eventtitle,361287,en.php
Join us at the Water Rat for readings from Parveen Brigue, Colin Wells, and Emma Purshouse. Tickets are £5 on the door.
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