POETS' CAFE AT SOUTH STREET Harry Man + Katie Meehan + Open Mic

Reading’s longest-running and best-loved poetry platform, Poets’ Café, is organised and hosted by The Poetry Society’s Reading Stanza.

Doors open at 8pm for an 8:30pm start. Tickets are £5 or £4 for concessions (and open mic readers!*) Tickets available here or on the door. *20 SLOTS AVAILIBLE ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS

Harry Man’s Lift (Tall Lighthouse, 2014) won the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award. His second pamphlet, Finders Keepers, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. His co-collection, authored with Endre Ruset, Deretter (‘Thereafter*’,* Flamme Forlag, 2021) won the Stephen Spender Prize and was a Dagblaget and Broken Sleep Books Book of the Year. He was shortlisted for Tees Valley Artist of the Year 2024. His first collection Popular Song (2024) is published by Nine Arches Press. He has translated Endre Ruset’s poetry collection Noriaki into English which is available from Broken Sleep Books. He is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University and lives in County Durham. www.manmadebooks.co.uk

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