Fire&Dust: Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange at The PVC!
Schedule
Thu Nov 06 2025 at 07:30 am to 10:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Priory Visitor Centre | Coventry, EN
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This is a special Fire&Dust event to celebrate Coventry's poetry connection with twin city Cork, in Ireland!** 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. 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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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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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
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Where is it happening?
Priory Visitor Centre, 6 Priory Row, Coventry, CV1 5, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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