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Medway's longest running poetry night, serving roundtable open mic and a selection of great feature performances.As autumn arrives it can mean only one thing: literary revelry in as pack of poets emerge from their habitats of hedgerows and litterfall. Come join us for another rustle around the depths of poetry, this month featuring Ellora Sutton and Susannah Dickey!
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Ellora Sutton is a poet and PhD candidate based in Hampshire. She was the Poetry Book Society Spring 2023 Pamphlet Choice with Antonyms for Burial (Fourteen Poems), and her latest pamphlet, Artisanal Slush, is published by Verve Poetry Press.
Her work has been published in The Poetry Review, Berlin Lit, Propel, Oxford Poetry, The Madrigal, The Interpreter’s House etc. She is the poetry reviewer for Mslexia, and she has been the poet-in-residence at both Jane Austen’s House, and Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery – where she is now proud to be a trustee.
She is in the first year of a fully-funded PhD, using poetry as a practice-based research method to explore how women experience museums as walkable urban spaces in London.
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Susannah Dickey is a writer from Derry. Her debut poetry collection, ISDAL (Picador, 2023), won the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the John Pollard Prize, and was a Guardian and Irish Times book of the year. Her third novel, into the wreck, will be published in April 2026 by Bloomsbury.
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Unfortunately due to the limitations of the venue this event is not wheelchair accessible. 12Degrees Micropub is a short walk from Rochester or Chatham train station. There is limited on street parking outside with the closest carpark being at Easons Yard.
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12Degrees Micropub, 352 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1, United Kingdom
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