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Fans of @holliepoetry will know her new book is out this week.. and in one month she is playing a sold out show at the main stage @bandonthewall on Thursday April 17.And we are super excited to keep the poetry going post show in the bar of @bandonthewall with our own incredible homegrown headline talent PLUS open mic line up… keep reading if that is of interest to you! ��
First meet the headliners @estie_poet & @zena_barrie !!!
Esther Koch is a multiple slam-winning spoken-word and page poet from Salford. She is as a BBC Radio1 Xtra Words First finalist and is published in Own It! London’s accompanying anthology Use Word’s First. With her words, she closed the the Team GB homecoming ceremony at Wembley Stadium in 2021. More recently Esther performed her commissioned poem “Manchester is alive, I can assure you” at the One Young World 2022 summit in Manchester and won Slamovision, the world’s foremost international poetry slam.
Zena Barrie lives in Manchester and works in the arts organising all sorts of things whilst listening to the radio. Her debut ‘brilliantly funny’ novel Your Friend Forever was published in 2021. Zena is a former host of Verbose and has supported so many new voices across the city for many years.
We will open up open mic sign up on 1st of April with the aim of letting everyone know by 7th April.
As always the event will be pay as you feel.
Stay tuned !!!!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Band on the Wall, 25 Swan Street,Manchester, United Kingdom
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