About

A pay as you feel evening of live poetry and music performance with award-winning guests Rachel Bower and Matt Hooper.

Rachel Bower is the Shipley-born author of two poetry collections and an academic book on literary letters. Her debut novel, It Comes from the River, will be published by Bloomsbury in January 2025. She is currently working on a poetry collection about endangered insects.

Rachel’s poems and stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including The White Review, Magma, The Rialto and Stand. She recently had a poem Highly Commended in the Ginkgo Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Best Poem of UK Landscape 2023. Rachel won The London Magazine Short Story Prize and the W&A Short Story Competition in 2020. Her work is represented by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown.

Matt Hooper is a multi award winning singer-songwriter based in Yorkshire.

A stint in Nashville landed him a Billboard no.1 & he brings some music city inspiration to his new material mixing classic U.S heartland (Springsteen, War On Drugs) with indie northern UK vibes (Elbow, I am Kloot, Stephen Fretwell).

'Hands & Knees' streams here

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The evening also features the opportunity to hand-print some lines of poetry and some lyrics on the People Powered Press's little sister, the Mini People Powered Press – exclusive A3 letterpress prints to take away and keep, signed by you and the artists.

And the bar will be open...