Fire & Dust: Cork-Coventry Twin Cities Poetry Exchange 2025!
Schedule
Thu Nov 06 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Priory Visitor Centre | Coventry, EN
About this Event
!! VENUE !! Please note: The LTB is now closed. Fire&Dust is temporarily hosted in Coventry's Priory Visitor Centre.
** You DON'T need a ticket to attend or be in the open mic.
Poets - please ONLY register for a ticket if you need a guaranteed open mic slot and can definitely attend. Please DON'T register for a ticket if you had one last month. There will also be open mic slots available on the night. **
Fire & Dust is a monthly poetry open mic event in Coventry city centre, hosted by local poets Ann Atkins and Raef Boylan. All welcome - 'page' poets, spoken word artists, slammers, MCs, story-tellers and anyone happy to listen to some wordsmith performances. Doors open for people to come in, grab seats and get settled around 7.15pm. The gig will start at 8PM.
Open mic slots are 3 minutes per poet. Find Raef (with clipboard) to sign up!
Travelling in from afar? Got accessibility concerns? Any queries? Please contact the hosts: raef @ hcemagazine DOT com
Bring friends, bring poems, or just come along for a listen! Take precautions to stay safe and keep others around you safe - respect people's preference to keep their distance, and please don't attend if you suspect you might have anything contagious. Cheers.
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HEADLINERS: BERNADETTE GALLAGHER and PHIL SPILLANE
Bernadette Gallagher is a poet from Ireland. Her debut poetry collection, The Risen Tree, was published by Revival Press in 2024. She has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork County Council. Her work has been published in Crannóg, Agenda, The Stinging Fly, The North, The Tablet, Stony Thursday, The Frogmore Papers and Southword. She is a recipient of awards for poetry including the Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2024 by Culture Matters, Cruthaitheacht Chois Fharraige 2025 by Turas Úr / Earagail Arts, County Donegal, highly commended at the 2025 Desmond O'Grady Poetry Competition and she has been invited to read her work in Ireland, the UK, the U.S., and at the Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi, India.
Phil Spillane is a writer, poet, and musician from Cork. He has an MA in Creative Writing and is currently a board member of the poetry organisation Ó Bhéal go Béal. In 2024 he performed spoken word at the Brigid Reawakened Festival in Kildare and at Elizabeth's Fort for the Cork World Book Festival in Cork city. His poetry films have been featured at STanzas Festival in St Andrews, Scotland, Cork Picture House in Cork, and his latest one, ‘The Green Man', was at the Drumshando Poetry Film Competition in Leitrim. His poems have been published in Good Day Cork, What Now, Cork Words 3, and The Ogham Stone. He currently runs an arts podcast called the Morebegs Den.
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NEW OPEN MIC SYSTEM:
Some open mic tickets are available to reserve here on Eventbrite; the rest are for sign-up on the night. Priority will be 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 the reserve list for random draw to fill empty slots. Most poets who want to read WILL get to, but sometimes the list is too busy to fit everyone in!
Please don't register for a ticket if you had one last month. Please do not take the ticket that is called ! STOP. NOT A TICKET, STOPS 'Sold Out' ALERT! - cheers.
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The Priory Centre is in Coventry city centre. It's located in Priory Place, behind Nando's/The Flying Standard Wetherspoon (Trinity Street), just a short distance from where The LTB was, and 2 minute's walk from Pool Meadow bus station. Info about nearby car parks and street parking can be found .
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Free entry. There will be a jar for donations on the night. Alternatively, you can to help Fire & Dust gigs keep going. For additional info, check out the .
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Where is it happening?
Priory Visitor Centre, 6 Priory Row, Coventry, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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