poetry @ temperance | Tongue & Groove Poetry

Join us for the second of a new season of 3 poetry cabaret evenings. Our featured poet is Charlotte Ansell. Following our sold out September event, we are delighted to welcome you to join us for the second night of our exciting 3 month season of poetry entertainment, with open mic slots, feature poet Charlotte Ansell, the Dead Good Dead Poet slot, and our guest musician, Andy Higgins, playing improv guitar for open micers who wish him to. Pre-show Poetry Workshop 6.30pm Also do come along to our free 40 minute poetry workshop starting at 6.30pm with the evening’s host Matt Black. To book the workshop add your show ticket then scroll down the Eventbrite bookings page till you find the correct booking drop-down. Open mic slots are 4 minutes long and we welcome your own original poems, also favourite poems that you love, and poems not in English, very welcome. There are 4 spots each month available for musicians, who get 5 minutes. Open Mic sign-ups on the door from 7.10pm. Show kicks off at 7.30pm About Charlotte Ansell Charlotte Ansell lives in Rochester and is a mesmerising performance poet.Her most recent collection, Amittere (2025), was longlisted for the highly prestigious Forward Prize for Best Collection. Wide ranging, its central themes are parent and child relationships, friends and siblings and her work as a child and adolescent psychotherapist. A master of sharp storytelling, she writes with tenderness, curiosity, occasional bleakness, always underpinned by an unrelenting thread of humour and hope. Charlotte received an RSL Award in 2020 and in 2025 was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize and won The Curae Poetry Prize. She founded and co-runs Common Ground, a local poetry collective in Kent. Final show - 24th November Final event of the 3 month season will be on Tuesday, November 24th with top Edinburgh Fringe show performer Tina Sederholm, and a Dead Poets Poetry Slam open for 10 poets (you!) to take part in. Please get in touch with Matt if you are interested in taking part. With genial host local poet Matt Black. For more info: Matt 077656 84941 £7/ or £5/ or Free