Keiron Higgins & Cayn Bevan Book Launch

Thu Jun 24 2021 at 08:30 pm

The Grayston Unity | Halifax

The Grayston Unity
Publisher/HostThe Grayston Unity
Keiron Higgins & Cayn Bevan Book Launch
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2 of Halifax's finest poets on the same night performing works from their respective new books.
Cayn started performing his brand of punk poetry on the 10th September supporting Attila the Stockbroker in his hometown of Hebden Bridge.
Following this gig, Cayn went on to perform at various open mic nights, poetry nights, punk gigs and various other events performing with the likes of John Cooper Clarke, Attila the Stockbroker, TV Smith, Nick Toczek, Sham 69, Anti Nowhere League, Dave Sharp and various other bands and performers.
Gigs aside, Cayn also released an independent booklet, Drunk and Incapable which sold all one hundred copies of it's print run within one month
Following this Cayn found himself the subject of a documentary by Pamela Eddington called "It'll be Cayn White on the Night" which was shown at The Odeon Cinema in Sheffield.
More gigs followed before Cayn took a break from continuous poetry gigging, to take on regular musician gigging playing in both The Dole Dossers and The Liberators, performing spoken word sporadically. After a break from all forms of performing, spurred on by friends and fellow poets Luke Hogarth and Keiron Higgins, Cayn returned to more regular performing and started writing new poems a mixture of humourous and serious pieces.
In November 2020 "Scraping the Barrel-Poems and Stupidity 2005-2020" a collection of thirty poems old and new was released by Tredition with two more books in the pipeline and more gigs lined up for a post Covid world.
Keiron (Lee) Higgins s started his journey into spoken word territories in 2013. he decided the art of spoken word and poetry would be the way forward. the idea would come to fruition after being inspired by a newly formed Halifax spoken word night and seeing close-knit poetry associate Cayn White perform his style of no holds barred poetry across the stage the years.

Although having a diverse music taste ranging to 60’s Jamaican Ska to early 90s Hip Hop, he started honing his ability from taking keynotes from such popular names in the scene such as John Cooper Clarke (the northern poet’s best friend when writing about similar things in a fashion) and US-based poet/writer Charles Bukowski, it wasn’t long after a set of appearances at open mic nights and spoken word nights he was supporting bands, building notoriety writing comical poems about arson and his love of vinyl records. By 2014-16, he had appeared on Rebellion Punk festival’s spoken word stage and were becoming more comfortable in the role of being a writer, social commentator and cementing his status as a “Punk Poet”.
In 2018-2019 was Keiron’s years of reckoning. Reading a diverse mixture of poetry and becoming a well-known face thanks to a slew of performances across Halifax. He was instrumental during this time influencing the Square Chapel “stories exhibition” to display autobiographical stories of people who have worked with the theatre throughout the years in which he was one of the many included. One of the many other projects he were asked to do was a commission to pen a poem for a newly opened pub, which would be displayed to the public. Eager to do so after sharing the stage and performing to an audience with celebrated writer and film producer Henry Normal at the Square Chapel film festival, he wrote the poem “The Meandering Bear” for the newly opened pub in Halifax of the same name. The poem was based around a story from the short-lived Halifax Zoo in 1910, about two bears that escaped and roamed around various parts of upper Halifax before been captured by the zookeepers.

With 2019-2020 and Keiron now drastically distancing himself from the “Punk Poet” tag (although he still sometimes writes rants influenced by Seething Wells, and Atilla The Stockbroker, the latter of which he has supported twice) he continues this journey onwards. Although currently deterred by current world events such as the pandemic, he continues to write poems in a comedic and mature sentimental style, to which he dubs in his own words “kitchen-sink drama influenced”. He adores so much. He hopes one day to play the 100 Club, and share centre stage as some of his heroes John Cooper Clarke and Linton Kwesi Johnson, do more recorded work with poetry and more importantly release more books of his often self-described “urban Haligonian tales” to a bigger audience.
Free entry. In our covered back yard.
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The Grayston Unity, 1-3 Wesley Court, Halifax, United Kingdom

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