Hey friends.
In the dark clouds of covid and lockdown we couldn't have live performance in the same way, but one silver lining in that dark cloud was that I (Harry Baker) started a podcast, which I don't think anybody else in the world thought to do in that time. Each week a different guest would join and we would share something old, something new, Something Borrowed, and something blue. Sometimes it was poems, sometimes it was music, mostly it made us all feel a little less alone.
One glorious UK Tour later and I realised the thing I want to do most in the world is have a monthly night in Margate so we're back baby! Who better to kick things off than the gold dust of that silver lining in the form of Helen Seymour, and where better to kick it off than the one and only Forts!?
As well as some chat and performance from me and Helen, there will be an open mic where you are welcome to come and perform a poem or song (either your own or Something Borrowed (!) from someone else), and if we're lucky a bespoke cocktail menu from UK Coffee In Good Spirits Champion 2019 Will Pitts.
Harry Baker is the World Poetry Slam Champion and champion of the people. His TED Talks have been watched by millions of people and translated into over 20 different languages. He has two books published with Burning Eye and the latest, Unashamed, was accompanied by an Edinburgh fringe show and 40-date tour of the UK. He is the only person to have sold out the Tom Thumb Theatre three nights in a row and he is yet to find anywhere that does a better French Toast than Forts.
Helen Seymour is a poet/writer/performer who has toured two solo shows across the UK, premiering her latest at Southbank Centre as part of London Literature Festival. Her debut collection The Underlook was published by the Poetry Business in January 2022. Moving and funny in equal measure, her poems describe a disappointing experience with a psychic, the case of a missing piglet and the decision to relocate into a well. She is currently working on her debut novel and potentially a new show about her late hamster.
Forts opened its big glass doors during lockdown and opened our hearts shortly after. Run by dream team Will Pits and Chris Rye, Everything is delicious and everyone is lovely. If this goes well we can do it monthly, then the logical progression is obviously to make it fortnightly, then Forts, nightly.
You are wonderful and if you've read this far you are absolutely my kind of person, so I would love to see you there. As with all my shows there is an option for a free ticket if you can't afford to pay for one in this moment, no questions asked. There are only 20 seats available so make sure you book early!
DOORS AT 7, SHOW STARTS AT 8.