WE’VE WON! Today Sabotage Reviews announced that Live From the Butchery, run in association with Ink Sweat & Tears, and co-hosted by Martin Figura, Helen Ivory and Kate Birch, had won the #SabAwards21 Best Regular Spoken Word Night and that is despite the fact that we are an afternoon event.

Past poets featured on LFTB include

Jill Abram, Fahad Al-Amoudi, Tiffany Atkinson, Malika Booker, Jane Burn, Matthew Caley, Rachael Clyne, Rishi Dastidar, Eve Esfandiari Denney, Ron Egatz, Annie Freud, Joanna Guthrie, Jen Hadfield, Chris Hamilton-Emery, Sophie Herxheimer, Andrea Holland, Adam Horovitz, Anja Konig, Tim Liardet, Gail McConnell, Esther Morgan, Jim McElvoy, Jennifer Militello, John Mills, Jess Mookherjee, Sean O’Brien, Jenny Pagdin, Kevin Reid, Stuart Ross, Clare Shaw, Georges Szirtes, Joelle Taylor, tristan-e, Tim Turnbull, Julia Webb, Jo Young, Memoona Zahid

And, of course, Helen and Martin, themselves, and  a selection of poets from IS&T’s Twelve Days of Christmas feature.

Coming up:

Saturday 5th June:

Christopher Reid
Lesley Ingram
Kymm Coverney

Sunday 18th July:

Roger Robinson
Anna Saunders
Sarah Westcott

Sunday  5th September

Raymond Antrobus
Carole Bromley
plus support