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We are back for another edition of Run Your Tongue - the spoken word open mic night where everyone is welcome and anything goes.Join us for a weird and wonderful evening of words at the amazing WATSON'S COCKTAIL BAR (AKA The Vegan Bar) in Leicester.
If you would like to perform on the open mic, please email [email protected] beforehand (poets, singers and storytellers are all welcome - in fact, as long as it involves words, you are welcome to open mic!)
This is a hybrid event, meaning some slots are available for online performances anywhere in the world! Also, feel free to log in and watch!
CIARÁN HODGERS
Ciarán Hodgers (he/him/his) is an Irish spoken word poet based in the UK. His debut poetry collection Cosmocartography, published by Burning Eye Books in 2018, was shortlisted for the prestigious Rubery Book Award and toured the UK & Ireland, featuring in national media on both sides of the pond.
Winner of the Sean Dunne National Young Writer Award in 2010, an International Pangaea Poetry Slam Champion 2015 and the Word War 3 Slam Champion, he has been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize, OutSpoken Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the Not The Foreword and Gingko Eco-poetry competition.
Published internationally in journals, anthologies, festivals, exhibitions and curriculum texts, he is also an experienced workshop leader and creative mentor, supporting people with their creative practice towards publication and a sustainable, consistent creativity.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Granby Street, LE1 1DJ Leicester, United Kingdom, 84-86 Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 1, United Kingdom,Leicester, United Kingdom
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