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Groups and Organisations

Sad Poets Doorstep Club

Sad Poets Doorstep Club is a queer & trans-run mental health-themed poetry open mic currently based at the Portal Bookshop in York. Their aim is to encourage, promote and connect marginalised poets in the scene, provide a space for the darker elements of performance poetry and stoke the fires of creativity in York, and online (when they get back there!). It runs every first Thursday from 6-9pm.


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Northern Beat Poets Association

Northern Beat Poets Association are a community of lyricists, writers and musicians with an interest in combining music with poetry. The outfit are releasing ten limited edition album/books by ten different artists via Bandcamp.


Crowdfunder Sponsors – Hearty Thanks!

Anonymous, Crow Rudd, Cathy Carson, Mary Lucas Powell, Luc, Clive Oseman, Anonymous, Mal Thompson, Naomi Jacobs, Sophia B, Helen Leigh, Cath Jenkinson, Anonymous, Rik Collier, Anonymous, Della Collins Cook, Kimberley Evans, Henry Thorpe, Sarah Reeson, Sam Dowdall, Joanna Susan Eden, Anonymous, Dyfrig Lewis-Smith, Claire Patel-Campbell, Annie Metcalfe, Kathryn Jeanes, Joanne Foxton, Anonymous, Laurence Tilley, Anonymous, Jenni Pascoe, Kristen Miller, Mike & Fiona Hildred, Vron McIntyre, Suzy Aspell, Anonymous, Niamh Lynn-Devere, Anonymous, P Seewards, Mark Boyd, Dee Dickens, Stewart Carswell, Julia Sansby, Debbie Hunter, Michael J Fielding, Sarah Peploe, Stuart Larner, Beth Hartley, William Anderson, Muriel Masson, Ann & Tracy, Sarah Crutwell, Anonymous, Leanne Moden, Jessica Rose, Hugh Bernays, and Anonymous

You all rock. Thank you!