FIBRE PRESENTS: MIKE GARRY AND GUESTS
Thu 01 Oct
|Fibre Studio
Poetry that stops you in your tracks. Mike Garry is one of the UK’s most distinctive spoken word artists.
Time & Location
01 Oct 2026, 19:00
Fibre Studio, 20 Deacon St, Leicester LE2 7EF, UK
About the event
Described by iconic designer Peter Saville as “a genius”, Mike’s work focuses on the city and its people, championing the underdog and finding beauty amongst the ugliness and triumph amongst tragedy. He has performed his poetry since 1995 and has worked in the USA, Hong Kong, and throughout Europe and has been on continuous tours with John Cooper Clark since 2011.
Mike began by reading his own poems to the hundreds of young people who attended his Library Homework Centre. They loved what they heard and encouraged him to perform them at live poetry events and Slams, which he did, instantly winning fans and prizes throughout the UK. His gritty poetry has won admiration far and wide and his collaboration with Joe Duddell and New Order in New Yorks Carnegie Hall in 2014 received five-star reviews.
Championed by Philip Glass for whom Mike has written a libretto that premiered at…
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General Admission
Sale ends
01 Oct, 19:30
£15.00
+£0.38 ticket service fee
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