Working Class: Toria Garbutt & Louise Exactly (spoken word)
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Working Class: Toria Garbutt & Louise Exactly
Mercer Hall, Great Harwood, BB6 7AL (now NOT a swimming pool!)
Saturday 19th September 2026
Working Class is an exciting double bill of spoken word featuring two of the UK’s most powerful voices: Yorkshire-born poet Toria Garbutt and Wigan-based Louise Exactly.
Their fierce, funny and unflinchingly honest voices offer sharp social and political commentary and deeply-personal truths about life in working-class Britain.
Raw, rebellious and brilliantly human, expect laughter, rage and tenderness.
Reviews for Louise:
‘A great performer’ Will Self
‘A voice that tingles with promise’ Ian McMillan
‘That was amazing and I've been a poet for 34 years. Will you come and do my festival?’' Attila the Stockbroker
‘A class act... I love her, you will too’ John Cooper Clarke
Reviews for Toria: ‘Toria's words are silk javelins. Frank explorations of self, outpourings of a joyfully pained mind. She means it. Cos she's lived it. I love that girl’ Mike Garry
‘Powerful, accessible, intelligent and musical. Just about all the things I love in a poet’ Professor Benjamin Zephaniah
‘The lyrical machine gun’ Matt Abbott
‘Rendered unemployed by Arkwright’s spinning Jenny at twelve years old. No wonder she’s a Luddite. Happily, she turned to the pen, with astonishing results. Ladies and gentlemen I give you, our mellifluous girl from the mills, Toria Garbutt’ Dr John Cooper Clarke
‘Toria Garbutt is an utterly extraordinary poet, with a rich soul, hard kick and the biggest heart. In live performance she has an exquisite effect on the listener, she made me blush once and I am still blushing thinking about it now’ Salena Godden
‘The most exciting poet I’ve seen in years’ Mark Grist
‘I love her stuff’ Hollie McNish
Working Class: Toria Garbutt & Louise Exactly
Mercer Hall, Great Harwood, BB6 7AL (now NOT a swimming pool!)
Saturday 19th September 2026
Working Class is an exciting double bill of spoken word featuring two of the UK’s most powerful voices: Yorkshire-born poet Toria Garbutt and Wigan-based Louise Exactly.
Their fierce, funny and unflinchingly honest voices offer sharp social and political commentary and deeply-personal truths about life in working-class Britain.
Raw, rebellious and brilliantly human, expect laughter, rage and tenderness.
Reviews for Louise:
‘A great performer’ Will Self
‘A voice that tingles with promise’ Ian McMillan
‘That was amazing and I've been a poet for 34 years. Will you come and do my festival?’' Attila the Stockbroker
‘A class act... I love her, you will too’ John Cooper Clarke
Reviews for Toria: ‘Toria's words are silk javelins. Frank explorations of self, outpourings of a joyfully pained mind. She means it. Cos she's lived it. I love that girl’ Mike Garry
‘Powerful, accessible, intelligent and musical. Just about all the things I love in a poet’ Professor Benjamin Zephaniah
‘The lyrical machine gun’ Matt Abbott
‘Rendered unemployed by Arkwright’s spinning Jenny at twelve years old. No wonder she’s a Luddite. Happily, she turned to the pen, with astonishing results. Ladies and gentlemen I give you, our mellifluous girl from the mills, Toria Garbutt’ Dr John Cooper Clarke
‘Toria Garbutt is an utterly extraordinary poet, with a rich soul, hard kick and the biggest heart. In live performance she has an exquisite effect on the listener, she made me blush once and I am still blushing thinking about it now’ Salena Godden
‘The most exciting poet I’ve seen in years’ Mark Grist
‘I love her stuff’ Hollie McNish
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Mercer Hall Swimming Pool Great Harwood !!!, Blackburn, United Kingdom
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