Live & Later - Open Mic with Katrina Naomi

Spoken Word & Poetry Night at The Liskeard Library

What to Expect!

A warm, welcoming atmosphere filled with stories, poetry, and performance that will leave you inspired.

This spoken word night is built around the theme “Visceral”.

Step into an evening that pulls no punches.
Our "Visceral" Spoken Mic Night is all about tapping into the kind of stories, sounds, and emotions that sit deep in the body, the ones that rise up unexpectedly and demand to be heard.

Expect a room alive with bold voices, quiet truths, and electric moments. Whether it’s poetry, storytelling, monologue, or sound—performers will be exploring the raw edges of being human: the things we feel before we make sense of them.

About Our Headliner

Katrina’s fourth poetry collection, Battery Rocks, (Seren, 2024) won the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors, the Holyer an Gof award for Poetry, and was recommended in The Guardian. Her previous collections have won an Authors’ Foundation Award and Saboteur Award, the latter jointly with Helen Mort. She is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize and has twice been highly commended in the Forward Prize. Katrina’s poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, The Verb, Open Country and Poetry Please, and in The TLS, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. In September 2025, Katrina published the pamphlet dance as if with Verve, following a collaboration with dancer/choreographer Kyra Norman. Katrina has performed her poetry in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Mexico and Japan. Before poetry, Katrina worked as an activist and commissioning editor for an international human rights organisation. She has a PhD from Goldsmiths and tutors for Arvon and the Poetry School. Katrina lives in Cornwall  www.katrinanaomi.co.uk

Booking Types 🎟️

1. Reading Spot - This is a free ticket type which means you want to speak to a live audience on the night! FREE

2. Cover the Cost - A helpful contribution that goes directly toward making this event possible. £5

3. Cover the Overheads - Helps us meet essential behind‑the‑scenes costs so we can run events sustainably. £7

4. Support the Event - Covers the full cost of delivering this event, from planning to delivery. £9

Food & Drinks🍷

Optional Dinner before the show (reserve with your ticket)

Drinks available on the night! Beers, soft drinks and hot drinks

Reserve your spot today and be part of a night to remember!

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