!! CURRENT VENUE - Priory Visitor Centre !!
** You DON'T need a ticket to attend or read. **
Recommended arrival time: 7.30PM or a bit earlier, especially to sign up for open mic. Doors open after 7PM, gig starts 8PM.
Fire & Dust is a monthly poetry open mic event. All welcome - page poets, performance poets, slammers, rappers, spoken word artists, and anyone happy to listen to some poetry. Bring poems, bring friends, or just bring yourself along for a listen!
Open mic slots available. For a guaranteed slot: register for a ticket. Alternatively, request to sign up on the night. Slots are limited to 3 minutes (a few extended slots may be available on request.)
OPEN MIC SYSTEM: A few open mic tickets are available to reserve on Eventbrite; the other slots are for sign-up on the night. Priority given to poets who didn't get to read last month. If you read last month and want to read again, your name will go on reserve list for random draw to fill empty slots. Most poets WILL get to read, but sometimes the list is just too busy to fit everyone in!
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HEADLINE POET: DR ROSY CARRICK
Rosy Carrick is a writer and performer whose work charts an unusually eclectic trajectory. Her debut poetry collection 'Chokey' was published by Burning Eye in 2018; her follow-up collection I LOVE will be released in October 2025.
Rosy's debut play 'Passionate Machine' won the award for Best New Play at Brighton Fringe, and The Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence at Edinburgh Fringe in 2018, before touring internationally throughout 2019. Her critically-acclaimed second play, 'Musclebound', which focused on the power and performance of female sexuality via motherhood and tortured 80s beefcake, was on tour 2024-25.
Rosy has co-hosted the Glastonbury Poetry & Words stage for the last decade. She co-hosted the Latitude poetry stage between 2011-2016, and was co-curator and co-host of the Port Eliot poetry stage between 2017-2019.
Rosy has a PhD on the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and has released two books of his work in translation: 'Volodya' (Enitharmon, 2015) and 'Vladimir Ilyich Lenin' (Smokestack, 2017). She is currently working on 'Dochka': a new collection of Mayakovsky's never-before-translated poetry for children.
"Absolutely brilliant!"
Dawn French
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There will be a jar for donations on the night. Alternatively, you can donate online to help Fire & Dust gigs keep going:
https://ko-fi.com/fireanddustpoetry
Also check out other Arts events in Coventry, Literary Art events in Coventry, Performances in Coventry.
