Live in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen!

Readings by a different local published poet each month and this month we’re delighted to welcome Mark and Gill Connors

MARK CONNORS is a widely published poet from Leeds. His debut, ‘Life is a Long Song’ was published by OWF Press in 2015. ‘Nothing is Meant to be Broken’ was published by Stairwell Books in 2017. ‘Optics’ was published by Yaffle Press in 2019. ‘After’ was published by YafflePress in 2021. His novels, Stickleback (2016), and Tom Tit and the Maniacs (2018), were
published by Armley Press. He is currently working on his third novel, and a hybrid book of memoir, travel writing, short fiction and poetry. He is a managing editor and co-founder of Yaffle Press and Yaffle’s Nest.

GILL CONNORS is from North Yorkshire where she lives and works. Her pamphlet ‘Uninvited Guests’ was published by Indigo dreams in 2017, and her two collections, ‘Tadaima’ and ‘ASmall Goodbye at Dawn’ were published by Yaffle in 2019 and 2022. Gill is working on a third collection which will be the result of her PhD, on the subject of the links between
Sixteenth Century and Twenty-First Century women. She is a managing editor of Yaffle and Yaffle’s Nest.

Mark and Gill will be reading from their debut joint collection ‘The Where We Were’, out now through Yaffle Press.

OPEN MIC

We supply the mic – you supply the poetry

Put your name down for a 5 minute slot (first come, first served) or just come along and listen.

Open mic name listing from 6.30pm

Event begins with guest poet at 7.00pm

Everyone welcome. Free (donation appreciated)