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🎤Placeholder Poetry #7: Laurel Moore, Liz Amos, Ri Baroche🗓️Thursday 11th December 2025
⏲️6.45pm doors | 7pm start | 9pm readings end
🍻[the bookshop alehouse] Southampton
Placeholder is home for poetry readings of the avant-garde, challenging, queer and radical. Following the success of this poetry reading series in Brighton, this special format is thriving in Southampton - presented in collaboration with Wire Wool Events.
Laurel Moore edits Nothing Much, a small press specialising in homemade paper
Liz Amos is Black British of Jamaican heritage and writes to explore multifaceted identities. Her poetry has featured in collaborations with John Hansard Gallery, ArtfulScribe and Music in the City (Southampton), and is published in Covert Literary Magazine #5. Her debut novel, ‘All the Truths Between Us’, was longlisted for the 2022 SI Leeds Literary Prize.
Ri Baroche is a writer, performer, musician, theatremaker and facilitator based in Hampshire. She has written 3 stage shows, been commissioned by ArtfulScribe, InsideOutDorset festival and aspacearts, and has performed at festivals across the UK, including Glastonbury.
6:45pm doors - 7pm start - readings end at 9pm
This event is a toiletries donation point for Basics Bank.
Raffle prizes are books - proceeds go to Yellow Door.
Price: £5 adv
Limited seats available, book in advance to avoid disappointment.
18+
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Bookshop Alehouse, Portswood Computers, Portswood Road, Southampton, SO17 2ES, United Kingdom
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