Upcoming events
Say Owt Slam featuring Maria Ferguson - 21st February 2025
Luke Wight: Joy plus Olivia Mulligan - 19th March 2025
Luke Wight: Joy plus Olivia Mulligan - 19th March 2025
Say owt slam
featuring: Maria ferguson
February 21st 2025
7.30pm
The Crescent
8 The Crescent, York, YO24 1AW
Tickets £8 or £13, you can decide what to pay, available here. All tickets £15 on the door.
Established in 2014, Say Owt Slam is a raucous evening of poet vs poet in a fun night of verse. Poets have three minutes to wow the audience and be crowed a Slam Champion! Expect poetry with humour and heart, comedy and charisma, stories and sizzling spoken word! Hosted by the loveable Say Owt gang.
"What the Say Owt crew have built and cultivated is an event that feels simultaneously welcoming and inclusive, whilst pushing standards to levels of top quality entertainment. Loved it."
- Polarbear, poet & story-teller.
Fancy taking part in the slam? Email [email protected] to get a slot, or find out more information.
We prioritise people living in York and the surrounding villages.
Featuring guest poet Maria Ferguson. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. Her debut collection, Alright, Girl? (Burning Eye, 2020), was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. On the stage, her one-woman show Fat Girls Don’t Dance (Oberon, 2017) won the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show; Essex Girl (Oberon, 2019) was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival. She has been commissioned by the Royal Academy of Art, Stylist magazine, The Bronte Parsonage and BBC Radio. She is the Associate Producer of LIVEwire Poetry and teaches creative writing in a variety of settings. Her second poetry collection, Swell, will be published by Penguin in 2025.
7.30pm
The Crescent
8 The Crescent, York, YO24 1AW
Tickets £8 or £13, you can decide what to pay, available here. All tickets £15 on the door.
Established in 2014, Say Owt Slam is a raucous evening of poet vs poet in a fun night of verse. Poets have three minutes to wow the audience and be crowed a Slam Champion! Expect poetry with humour and heart, comedy and charisma, stories and sizzling spoken word! Hosted by the loveable Say Owt gang.
"What the Say Owt crew have built and cultivated is an event that feels simultaneously welcoming and inclusive, whilst pushing standards to levels of top quality entertainment. Loved it."
- Polarbear, poet & story-teller.
Fancy taking part in the slam? Email [email protected] to get a slot, or find out more information.
We prioritise people living in York and the surrounding villages.
Featuring guest poet Maria Ferguson. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. Her debut collection, Alright, Girl? (Burning Eye, 2020), was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. On the stage, her one-woman show Fat Girls Don’t Dance (Oberon, 2017) won the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show; Essex Girl (Oberon, 2019) was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival. She has been commissioned by the Royal Academy of Art, Stylist magazine, The Bronte Parsonage and BBC Radio. She is the Associate Producer of LIVEwire Poetry and teaches creative writing in a variety of settings. Her second poetry collection, Swell, will be published by Penguin in 2025.
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luke wright: joy
March 19th 2025
7.30pm
The Crescent
8 The Crescent, York, YO24 1AW
Plus support from BBC Radio York’s Poet Laureate Olivia Mulligan.
Tickets £15 in advance,£12 concessions.
Following the smash hit success of his Silver Jubilee show (“the best thing he’s done and that’s saying something.” ★★★★★ Telegraph) Luke Wright returns with a new of set poems that get to grips with the idea of JOY. Is it possible, as a 42 year old, to feel pure unbridled happiness, and what does it look like?
The French novelist Henry de Montherlant said that “happiness writes white” but Wright’s not exactly starting with a blank page. With a mix of the of the comic and the wistful, JOY takes in consumerism, boozing, cancer scares, abseiling vicars, and the joy of language itself. We might have to go down to come up, but we’ll get there in the end. Come let a little joy into your life with a raconteur and wordsmith at the top of his game.
“Breathtaking … with a sharpness and wisdom that lifts the soul, and soothes the battered heart.” ★★★★ The Scotsman
“A winning combination of honesty, humour, ire and wonder. He is at the peak of his powers.” ★★★★★ The Stage
“Britain’s finest performance poet.” ★★★★★ Life As Theatre
Supported by Colchester Arts Centre
Performing a support slot before Luke's show is Olivia Mulligan, a poet and children's author. Passionate about sharing uplifting material with others, Olivia performs her poems at gigs and festivals, she runs poetry workshops for both children and adults and at the start of 2021, she was appointed BBC Radio York’s Poet Laureate.
7.30pm
The Crescent
8 The Crescent, York, YO24 1AW
Plus support from BBC Radio York’s Poet Laureate Olivia Mulligan.
Tickets £15 in advance,£12 concessions.
Following the smash hit success of his Silver Jubilee show (“the best thing he’s done and that’s saying something.” ★★★★★ Telegraph) Luke Wright returns with a new of set poems that get to grips with the idea of JOY. Is it possible, as a 42 year old, to feel pure unbridled happiness, and what does it look like?
The French novelist Henry de Montherlant said that “happiness writes white” but Wright’s not exactly starting with a blank page. With a mix of the of the comic and the wistful, JOY takes in consumerism, boozing, cancer scares, abseiling vicars, and the joy of language itself. We might have to go down to come up, but we’ll get there in the end. Come let a little joy into your life with a raconteur and wordsmith at the top of his game.
“Breathtaking … with a sharpness and wisdom that lifts the soul, and soothes the battered heart.” ★★★★ The Scotsman
“A winning combination of honesty, humour, ire and wonder. He is at the peak of his powers.” ★★★★★ The Stage
“Britain’s finest performance poet.” ★★★★★ Life As Theatre
Supported by Colchester Arts Centre
Performing a support slot before Luke's show is Olivia Mulligan, a poet and children's author. Passionate about sharing uplifting material with others, Olivia performs her poems at gigs and festivals, she runs poetry workshops for both children and adults and at the start of 2021, she was appointed BBC Radio York’s Poet Laureate.
