It was at The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre where the first-ever LIVEwire tour kicked off, way back in September 2019. The tour was never completed – it was due to run until spring 2020 – but those earlier dates in Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, and Leeds were a real turning point for Nymphs & Thugs.
We returned to The Edge for a one-off event in November 2021, and we’re delighted to be launching our LIVEwire regional dates in the form of this brand-new organisation. It’s a wonderful venue and we’ve programmed a spectacular line-up of poets who start us off as we mean to go on.
Join us on Thursday 14 March for electric performances from Momtaza Mehri, Jess Green, and Casey Bailey! Tickets are available here for £15 (£13) and we expect that it’ll sell out – the first two LIVEwire Manchester events did just that.
Read more: LIVEwire Manchester No.3 on 14 Mar
Momtaza Mehri is an award-winning poet and essayist. She is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London and winner of the 2019 Manchester Writing Prize. Momtaza won the 2023 Forward Prize for Best First Collection with ‘Bad Diaspora Poems’.
BBC Slam Champion, Jess Green is a performance poet and script writer for. She’s performed at Glastonbury, Latitude and BBC 6 Music Festival as well as having taken two 5* shows to Edinburgh Fringe and on national tours. Her new poetry collection ‘Dressed As Love’ was published in December.
Casey Bailey was Birmingham’s Poet Laureate 2020–22. His second collection ‘Please Do Not Touch’ was published in 2021 and his debut play ‘GrimeBoy’ had a sold out run at Birmingham Rep in 2022. He is a Fellow of the Uni of Worcester and in 2021 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Newman Uni.
If you’re curious as to what you can expect, the wonderful Northern Heart Films produced this highlights reel of our 2019 event below.
LIVEwire Poetry 
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