Verbose MCR

One of Manchester’s longest running spoken word and new writing events is back at The King’s Arms, Salford on Monday 16th December for the last Verbose of the year!

Verbose brings a vibrant mix of spoken word and live literature from a talented bill of open mic acts and two wonderful headliners every month. Expect poetry, prose and everything in between on a night with a real community vibe that gladly welcomes all newcomers.

If you are interested in being part of the open mic, with a four minute slot to read or perform any type of writing, email verbosemanchester@gmail.com between 1st & 7th December.

Introducing our headliners!

Isabelle Kenyon is a Manchester writer and the author of psychological thriller 'The Dark Within Them', poetry collections including Growing Pains (Indigo Dreams) and one short story with Wild Pressed Books ('The Town Talks').

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In 2018 she founded Fly on the Wall Press, a political publisher of fiction and poetry, achieving Small Press finalist status at the British Book Awards for the last four years and winning in the North in 2024!

She has had work published internationally in journals such as Ink, Sweat and Tears and newspapers such as The Somerville Times and The Bookseller. She coordinates the Northern Fiction Alliance at Comma Press and runs PR campaigns for writers and publishers under Kenyon Author Services (www.kenyonauthorservices.co.uk)

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She has performed at Cheltenham Poetry Festival and Verbose, Manchester in 2020, Leeds International Festival as part of the 'Sex Tapes', Apples and Snakes' 'Deranged Poetesses' in 2019 and Coventry Cathedral's Plum Line Festival in 2018. She is a fierce dog and guinea pig lover and a confessed caffeine addict.

Photo credit – Jak Stocker

Rosie Garland

Writer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets, Rosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries.

Her poetry collection ‘What Girls do the Dark’ (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize, & her latest novel is ‘The Fates’, a retelling of the Greek myth.

Coming soon with Fly on the Wall is her first collection of short fiction, ‘Your Sons & Your Daughters Are Beyond’.

Val McDermid has named her one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT writers.

http://www.rosiegarland.com/

Photographer credit - Carri Angel