Poetry Bites Michael McKimm
Belfast poet, Michael McKimm, is the special guest at Poetry Bites at the Kitchen Garden Café, King’s Heath, Birmingham, on Tuesday, 26thJanuary.
Michael was born in Belfast in 1983 and grew up near the Giant’s Causeway. He graduated from the Warwick Writing Programme in 2004 and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007. His poetry is most recently published in Dossier Journal (New York), Horizon Review, Magma, Oxford Poetry, PN Review, The Warwick Review, The Wolf and The Best of Irish Poetry 2010 (edited by Matthew Sweeney). He has read his work throughout the UK and Ireland, including at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Stanza Festival and the Solstice Festival in Co. Kerry. In November 2009 he was commissioned to write poems for the David Hockney/Frances Stark exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary art gallery. Still This Need, his first full-length collection, was published by Heaventree in 2009. You can find out more about Michael and read some of his work at
Poetry Bites also has an open-mic section where you can share your own work with an appreciative audience, but please arrive early to book a spot.
The evening starts at 7.30pm, though food is available from 6.30pm, and the entry fee is £5 (£4 for concessions). To reserve a place, email jacquirowe@hotmail.co.ukor pay on the door.
The Kitchen Garden Café is at 17 York Road, King’s Heath, Birmingham B14 7SA
Please see the gig guide for more details.
