A REGULAR poetry event in Reading is returning for its first iteration for 2025.
The Poets’ Cafe is back at South Street Arts Centre this week, bringing guest poets and local performers to the stage.
This month the event will welcome guest poet Nia Broomhall, who hails from Somerset.
Broomhall has taught for 23 years and currently acts as co-Head of English at a comprehensive school.
Her poetry explores themes of place, loss and positivity through her fascination with sound and form.
She has also won the Hamish Canham Prize, Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition, and the Poetry Society Members’ Poems Competition in the last two years.
She was also highly commended in the Winchester Poetry Prize for two years running, as well as being featured in a number of poetry publications, such as The Friday Poem; Ink, Sweat, and Tears; The Interpreter’s House; and Sound and Vision.
The event will also feature its usual open-mic slots, and hosted by resident writer and rhymer, Vic Pickup.
Poets’ Cafe, presented by Reading Stanza returns to South Street Arts Centre on Friday, January 10, and again on the second Friday of each month.
Details and tickets are available via: whatsonreading.com/venues/south-street/whats-on/poets-cafe-2025
More information available via: poetscafereading.co.uk
