Feminine Flowz
Celebrating International Women's Day 2025

The Poetry Place held Feminine Flowz to celebrate International Women’s Day – co-hosted by Griot Gabriel and the phenom PA Bitez!

Bolstered by a captivating all-women line-up headlined by the Jay Mitra – plus featured poets Lol, Lisa Moore and Janel Antoneshia and open mic poets, the event was a spectacular honouring of women’s voices.

Griot Gabriel interviews Jordan Stephens as part of the Festival of Libraries 25!

In early June, as part of the Manchester City of Literature Festival of Libraries, Manchester's 2024 Slam-o-Vision Champion Griot Gabriel sat and discussed excerpts from the encapsulating book Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs by Jordan Stephens. it proved to be a very deep conversation, with Jordan opening up on his journey of masculinity, childhood, relationships and current musical endeavours.

Valentines Day 25 - 'Love is' 2.0

The Poetry Place hosted its second 'Love is' event on Valentines Day in the sublime and packed out Impossible Bar venue in Deansgate. Our expertly selected Poets (Griot Gabriel, Caesar, Naami, Sophia Khokhar, David Okodeh, Fauzia) weaved words of intimacy, to celebrate love in its many forms.

16 yr- old David Okodeh wins The Poetry Place Slam to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary.

7th December 2024

TPP hosted a poetry slam in celebration of its 3rd year anniversary. Headlined by the phenom PA Bitez, the evening saw 10 poets use 3 minutes to deliver their most enthralling poetry to impress the 5 industry expert judges. Congratulations to the inspiring David Okodeh, who left with the Championship belt and the £100 cash prize!

Griot Gabriel commissioned by Factory Int as new writer to respond to the themes in Ivan Michael Blackstock's TRAPLORD.
6th October 2024

Exploring themes of Black Masculinity in a western world, Griot Gabriel imagines a dramatic battle for the soul of a young Black man, click link below to read the story.

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The Poetry Place to perform at Manchester Science and Industry Festival on 19th October 2024

We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Science and Industry Museum, as we will be performing poetry themed on A.I. in Space as part of Manchester Science festival.

The festival will host a Cosmic Quiz, were 3 poets (Griot Gabriel, Caesar and Dear Ilaf, (the winner of our call out competition) will each perform a poem. One of our poets has used an A.I. programme to create their poem and it will be up to the audience to guess which poet it is!

It is guaranteed to be a fun evening, with lots of other cool acitvities through the 9-day festival.

Click the link to access tickets and watch our performances.https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/manchester-science-festival