Rhubarb #86 Malika Booker + open mic
Wednesday 29 October 2025
@The Triangle, 47 Bradford Rd, Shipley BD18 3DS
7pm for 7.30 start
Pay-as-you-feel
Join us for our 86th Rhubarb at The Triangle - all treat, no tricks, as we welcome the legendary Malika Booker, plus our usual open mic for poets & prose writers.
Dr Malika Booker (RSFL) a Caribbean British poet, lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University, co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A Writer’s collective) and is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice. Her published work includes Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree, 2007) Breadfruit (flippedeyepublishing, 2007), and the anthology Your Family, Your Body: Penguin Modern Poets 3 9Penguin, 2027).
Photo credit: Josimar Senior Black Writers Guild
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Rhubarb is a pay-as-you feel event that welcomes poetry & prose readers on an open mic in the first half, followed by a headline set from an invited guest. If you want to read on the open mic, please book with us when you arrive. We generally offer 10 open mic slots of up to 4 minutes (squeezing in a few extras when we can). As always, listeners are also very welcome.
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