This event will be held at the Maddermarket in Norwich [Entrance St John’s Alley NR2 1DR]. Doors will be open at 7pm for a 7.30 start. We are suggesting a donation of minimum £3 for those who attend. The venue includes a bar It will be possible to sign up for an Open Mic slot on the door.
Katrina Naomi is an award-winning poet, performer, mentor and judge. Her fourth poetry collection, Battery Rocks, (Seren, 2024) is the winner of the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors. Katrina’s previous collections have won an Authors’ Foundation Award and Saboteur Award, and she is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize. Katrina’s poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Open Country and Poetry Please, and in The TLS, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. She has a PhD from Goldsmiths and tutors for Arvon and the Poetry School. Katrina lives in Cornwall www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
Naoise Gale is a poet based in Norwich. Her writing explores mental health, addiction, and giving and receiving care. She won the Ledbury Poetry Prize in 2022, and was highly commended in the Welsh Poetry and the Winchester Poetry Prizes in 2024. Her debut pamphlet, After the Flood Comes the Apologies, was published with Nine Pens Press in 2021, and her collection Blue But Not Broken was released with Femme Salvé Books in 2024. Naoise is a CHASE-funded PhD researcher at the University of East Anglia, studying poetry and psychosis. In her free time, she is a deputy-editor at Anthopocene poetry magazine. You can find Naoise’s poems in Magma, Atrium, and Tears in the Fence journals.