Name: LIVEwire x Bad Betty | Live poetry event
Start: 2025-11-24T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-24T22:00:00+00:00
Location: Hyde Park Book Club

LIVEwire x Bad Betty | Live poetry event

LIVEwire Poetry is thrilled to be hosting Bad Betty Press once more, on the Leeds leg of their UK tour. Featuring live performances from three of Bad Betty's latest poets — Antosh Wojcik, Agata Masłowska, and Francis-Xavier Mukiibi — alongside Leeds-based feature Maria Ferguson.
These events are designed to be engaging and accessible for all audience members, whether you're a poetry newcomer or a seasoned pro!
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Antosh Wojcik is a poet, drummer, and sound designer. His work explores memory, heritage, labour, time & the destabilisation of these things. He is a co-founder of Sleepwalker Studios, a Dorset-based production company and has received film commissions from BFI Network, The Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts and Culture University of Exeter and Natural England. He wrote the screenplay for ‘The Memory Boom’ (dir. Xenia Glen) which premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024 in the Rebels With A Cause competition category. His poems are published in bath magg, Action, Spectacle and Anthropocene. His debut poetry collection, Suburban Locust, is forthcoming from Bad Betty Press in Autumn 2025.
Francis-Xavier Mukiibi is a poet and performer of Ugandan heritage from North London. He is a Barbican Young Poet, Roundhouse Poetry Collective and Obsidian Foundation alumnus. He was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award for his debut pamphlet, Mutabani & [ ]ther Poems, and won Silver in the Creative Future Writers’ Award for 2024. He coached the University of Leeds to its first UniSlam title in 2025, and self-produced one of 40 short poetry films as part of the Apples and Snakes Future Voices programme. His poems appear in Under the Radar, Propel Magazine, Magma and Poetry London, among others.
Maria Ferguson is a Leeds-based poet and award-winning theatre maker of ‘Fat Girls Don’t Dance’ (2017) and ‘Essex Girl’ (2019). In 2020, she released her debut poetry collection, ‘Alright, Girl?’, reflecting on her working-class heritage, womanhood and belonging. Her latest collection, ‘SWELL’, released in January, is another deeply personal collection of poetry. ‘SWELL’ is an honest, uncompromising and powerful collection, full of heart and humour, which movingly documents Maria’s experience of womanhood.
Agata Maslowska was born in Poland and lives in Scotland. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in many magazines. She received the Scottish Book Trust Award. Her debut collection, Woman: Plant: Language: will be published by Bad Betty Press.