LIVEwire Poetry

Now that the dust has settled in our maiden project, we’re over the moon to announce that Salena Godden FRSL is now an official patron of LIVEwire Poetry.

When we signed to Salena to Nymphs & Thugs in late 2016, it was the catalyst that saw us grow from being a small Yorkshire outfit to a nationally recognised organisation with global reach.

To have Salena has an official patron for LIVEwire Poetry is a huge endorsement for us and underlines our intent to become firmly established on the UK’s thriving spoken word poetry scene.

Here’s Salena’s statement:

I am honoured and excited to be invited to be official patron of LIVEwire Poetry. There is a thriving, vibrant, vital and lively poetry scene in the UK and organisations like LIVEwire nourish and feed the roots of it all. I enjoy LIVEwire tours and events and the myriad of incredible poets it attracts at all stages of their careers, from bold new voices to the more established well-known names, both on stage and in the audiences. It’s been a few years now since I produced my LIVEwire album with Matt Abbott and Nymphs & Thugs. We made that album to capture some of the magic and essence of live poetry, sharing the buzz of sharing poetry, the connections found and made. LIVEwire Poetry is all of that and more with nationwide live events and workshops, I look forward to watching this grow and seeing more poets arrive, evolve and blossom. Thank you.

Thank you to everybody who has supported us in this new era. It was a terrifying prospect to completely rebrand back in February, but from where we’re sitting, it couldn’t have gone any smoother.