Thu 16 Jun
|The Roundhouse
A Lovely Word (at the Roundhouse) with Ashleigh Nugent
Introducing Merseyside’s most eclectic spoken word night, where you can turn up, enjoy some poetry or get up and speak yourself. Split into two halves of open mic-ers, with a headliner at the beginning of the second half.
Time & Location
16 Jun 2022, 19:30
The Roundhouse, Piazza, 1 Market Pl, Prescot L34 5SB, UK
About the Event
Introducing Merseyside’s most eclectic spoken word night, where you can turn up, enjoy some poetry or get up and speak yourself. Split into two halves of open mic-ers, with a headliner at the beginning of the second half.
Hosted by Alex Ferguson, this free event is a fun, relaxed and friendly evening of performance poetry.
Ashleigh Nugent is an author, performer and creative director at RiseUp CiC. His debut novel, LOCKS, won a publishing deal with PICADOR and will be re-released in April 2023. LOCKS also won the 2013 Commonword Memoir Competition and received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. Ashleigh’s other publishing credits include poetry anthologies, academic journals and magazines. He has also written and performed pieces for theatres including Liverpool’s Everyman and Live Theatre in Newcastle. Ashleigh was nominated Artist of the Year in the Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards 2021.