CB1 open mic is back on Sunday 7th December at the Town and Gown Pub & Theatre - Cambridge. since we’re hosting not one, but two guest poets this month, entry will cost £5 on the door.
We’ve been overwhelmed by the response to CB1 in recent months so if you’d like to read, you’ll have to get in quick because spots are limited! Bring a poem or just come to listen to some fantastic poets from around Cambridge. Can’t wait to see you there at 18:30!
Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet, born in Argentina and based in London. His second collection, Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus, 2025), was shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and praised by The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Morning Star for its lyrical power and fearless engagement with queer, diasporic experience. Boix's debut English collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto & Windus, 2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice and named one of The Guardian’s top five poetry books of the year. Boix is the editor and lead translator of the groundbreaking Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Poetry (Fourteen Publishing), and has introduced English-speaking audiences to major Latin American voices including Diana Bellessi, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, and José Watanabe.
Stav Poleg is a writer, poetry editor, and creative writing tutor based in Cambridge, UK. Her debut poetry collection, The City (Carcanet, 2022) was chosen for the Financial Times’ Best Summer Books 2022, and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for First Collection, 2023. Her second poetry collection, The Banquet (Carcanet, 2025) is currently shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025. Poleg’s poetry has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, in The New Yorker, Poetry Daily, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review and elsewhere. Her work has been published in leading anthologies, including A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (Knopf, 2025), The Forward Book of Poetry (Faber, 2024 ) and New Poetries VIII (Carcanet, 2021). Her graphic-novel installation, ‘Dear Penelope: Variations on an August Morning’, created with artist Laura Gressani, was acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
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