Spoken Word at the Bar Des Arts

Open Mic Event

Contact: 1000monkeysguildford@gmail.com

Come and join in or just listen in our open mic with guests at this stylish poetry venue! Hosted by Dónall Dempsey in Guildford - everyone's welcome and appreciated! Sign up on the night from 7.00pm or message us on http:www.facebook/the1000monkeys or our website http://www.the1000monkeys.com/

Three talented poets as guests:

A F Harrold is a prolific published writer and performer, quirky, sardonic, surreal, funny and serious by turns. He’s also a consummate performer. AF's most recent collection of poems is Lies My Mother Never Told Me (Burning Eye Press). His new children’s novel, The Imaginary, is described by the Financial Times as “a delight from start to finish”
Read more on his website: http://www.afharrold.co.uk/

Jennifer McGowan, when she is not hiding in the fifteenth century, publishes poetry and prose in many magazines and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic, including Agenda and Acumen. Her chapbooks are available from Finishing Line Press. Her website can be found at http://www.jenniferamcgow/ (She was also the winner of the first Keystone Slam!)

Amy McAllister has performed at venues all over London, including the Royal Festival Hall), the Royal Albert Hall), Jawdance, , and many others. She's the UK Anti-Slam Champion! She was poet-in-residence at Bang Said the Gun and also at Angel Underground Station as part of Transport for London’s ‘Travel Better London’ campaign. She has had poems published in Rhyming Thunder, the Pop-Up Anthology, The Playerist, and in several editions of South Bank Poetry Magazine. Her website is at https://amymcallisterpoetry.wordpress.com/

We're on the lookout for poems to include in our next anthology, so come and read for an opportunity to have your work published by Dempsey & Windle !

Entry: free (or voluntary donations)

Time: 7.30