King Ink
James WhitmanSunderland’s monthly spoken word and poetry night.
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 34 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | ArtsPerforming Arts | |||
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In April 2025, we hosted the first of two collaborative events with Born Lippy. Three poets from each night went head to head, and the winners...? Poetry!
From Born Lippy, we had Hold Thoughts by Lydia Bruce, Back in Blyth by Tommy23, and Blackouts ... more
In March 2025, we hosted a launch event for Robin Moss. Robin’s latest pamphlet, Learning to Count on the Fingers of Two Hands is available from Mudfog Press.
Our open mic turned out in force, and we have four podcast debutants in this episode. From... more
In February 2025, we were joined by children's author and dead canny poet, Lisette Auton. We’d met Lisette at one of Steve Urwin's infamous Writing Marathons, and she’s one of those poets who just straight-up first drafts beautiful, authentic, human ... more
Throughout the summer of 2024, Helen was Poet in Residence at Sunniside in Sunderland. And in January, she launched a pamphlet of the poetry she wrote during that residency. Woohoo!
From the night’s buzzing open mic we have an untitled piece by Jack... more
We weren’t able to record an episode in December, due to James being laid low with lurgy. Sad times.
But... James never throws any audio away, so we have a couple of festive poems to tickle your baubles. First, we have Festive Fare by AJ McKenna, th... more
In November we lost one of our longest-standing community members, when Pauline May passed away. We all miss Pauline a great deal, and at the top of this episode, we wanted to commemorate her by sharing one of the poems from her pamphlet, Planets, Pl... more
All right? This month, we launched the first issue of the King Ink Collection, a celebration of our diverse, talented and raucous open mic regulars.
Some of the poems in this episode feature in the collection (available to buy from our Etsy store); ... more
All right? From May to October last year, you might have bumped into some of King Ink at Seventeen Nineteen, where we were artists-in-residence. We ran writing workshops and drop-ins, produced a poetry collection and a celebratory spoken word night, ... more
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