An Evening With Mike Garry

Mike began by reading his own poems to the hundreds of young people who attended his Library Homework Centre.

They loved what they heard and encouraged him to perform them at live poetry events and Slams, which he did, instantly winning fans and prizes throughout the UK.

His gritty poetry has won admiration far and wide and his collaboration with Joe Duddell and New Order in New Yorks Carnegie Hall in 2014 received five-star reviews.Championed by Philip Glass for whom Mike has written a libretto that premiered at the 2015 Days and Nights Festival in The Big SurMike has worked in thousands of schools and his three books, Mens Morning, Mancunian Meander and God is a Manc have become schemes of work in schools throughout the UK and his poetry is regularly heard on BBC Radio and TV.

He has read his poems in Prisons, Young Offenders units, Mental Health Hospitals, Childrens Homes, youth clubs and local pubs.

Hes passionate about bringing live poetry to places it wouldnt normally reach and to people who wouldnt normally listen to it.His performances are passionate swirling rhythms of thoughts and emotions converted to monologues of quick-fire words.Featuring Support on the Night From:Loll the PoetLoll the poet is an alternative outspoken poet/spoken word artist hailing from Manchester.

She is loud and rhymes a lot and has a way of keeping your attention hooked whilst painting a picture with words.Loll has previously been published in anthologys, books, magazines and zines.

She has been on allFM, unity radio, reform radio and bbc radios late show and bbc upload.

She was last years chosen candidate to represent Manchester in Slamovision (the Eurovision of poetry) last November.She takes complements in the form of J20s or Guinness 0% and would rather you clap than click.Colin AndersonColin Anderson is a poet who writes relatable poetry covering all aspects of life from his day to day family life and observations, to poems dealing with previous trauma and to the downright abstract.

Poetry is a vital tool in his toolbox he uses to deal with the everyday stresses of life as well as the larger inevitabilities of life.