For people who like coffee but want to try out poetry. ☕🖊️
It's the final Coffee and Poems Club event of 2024! It's been a wonderful year connecting with new writers across Manchester. We came together in quiet cafe corners at the start, to spreading across multiple tables. At it's core, Coffee and Poems club has been about simplifying poetry, but it's also created community.
The idea behind coffee and poems club is simple, we come and enjoy a coffee, hear some poems, and then we write some poems together. Our fundraising event will be much of the same, but with a few small changes. Here's what to expect:
- This time you'll hear from a group of amazingly talented and passionate guest writers, hear their work and get tips on how to approach writing poetry
- We will come together to write a collaborative poem
- Take part in a raffle to raise funds, they'll be coffee and poetry themed prizes so you can keep romanticising your life until the next coffee and poems club
With a £10 ticket you get access to the Coffee and Poems Club event and the raffle, but you will also be providing food for a person for up to three days. If you can't make the event but still want to support the cause, you can donate the price of a coffee (£3.50) towards the fundraiser. All funds raised will go direct to Manchester Central Foodbanks.
The event will be hosted by Louis Glazzard at Haunt on the 8th of September. Haunt is all about easy living, coffee shop by day, speciality wine and cocktail bar by night. They're a fiercely independent family business with an eye for quality.
Louis Glazzard is a working class queer writer and coffee lover. His poems have been published nationally and broadcasted on BBC Arts and BBC Radio 6. He released his debut poetry collection Human Men in 2021 and he runs writing workshops for new and emerging writers. He is also currently represented by Frog Literary for his debut novel.