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Join us for Bury’s brand new and only regular poetry open mike night!

Once More with Meaning is a night of poetry, local ale, and eccentricity, featuring reading from open mike-ers and some very special guest poets. Want to read your work? Just come along. The best poem read (voted by the audience) will be published online.

This month’s guests are Laura Taylor and the Working Verse Collective.

Please note: admission is through Automatic Restaurant. Tickets on the door only.

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