Back and making more trouble than ever, Big Trouble returns laden with the overstuffed talents of Connor Sansby and Tom Sastry! Plus, as ever, our usual free-for-all open mic session is running.
Get your tickets here:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/big-trouble/t-noamdae
No need for advance sign up but get in touch if you have any questions!
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Connor Sansby is a Poet, Author, Festival Producer and Editor-in-Chief for Whisky & Beards Publishing. Since 2013, Connor has performed across the South of England, including Margate Soul Festival, Wise Words Festival and London’s Let’s K*ll It. He is the winner of the 2024 Rosemary McLeish Poetry Prize, and the recipient of an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant. His work has been nominated for three Saboteur Awards and has been shortlisted for the DYSPLA Storymakers Residency.
Since the release of his debut collection “Promise Me The Journey Back” in April 2018, Connor has been reconnecting with his hometown and his relationship with the sea. His second collection “Where The Land Forgets Itself” is set for release on April 30th 2025.
Routed in the American beat tradition, Connor’s work focuses on the underclass, bringing a digital harshness to Imagism to discuss contemporary society from the personal lens. One part Sophia Coppola movie, one part Bukowski at his least toxic, and two parts sea water.
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Tom Sastry is political, ironic, emotional, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. His new collection Life Expectancy Begins To Fall is book about people whose retirement plan is dying in the climate wars and whose current plan is pretending everything is normal. It was described by Costa Award winning poet Jonathan Edwards as “the most important – and certainly the most entertaining – book about the end of the world I’ve yet found”
Tom’s previous books have been (variously) Poetry School Book of the Year, Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice, highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.
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12Degrees Micropub is 10 minutes walk from either Chatham or Rochester train station. There is limited on-street parking outside the venue, or the Easons Yard public parking a short walk away.
Unfortunately due to the restrictions of the venue the event is not wheelchair accessible.
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