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Community Poem March 2025

Each hand gestures to its own goblin

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Satellite of Love Presents: tall-lighthouse / Pighog Poetry Night

On Board The John Sebastian Lightship, Open Mic and Guest Poets

Tuesday 17th of June Doors open 7pm event starts 7.30pm

Event finishes 10pm

Sonya Smith

Caleb Parkin

Mark Wynne

About tall-lighthouse

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Satellite of Love Headliners: Dee Dickens & Kathryn O’Driscoll

June 25th 2025 at the Loco Klub

Door open at 7pm open mic starts 7.30pm event ends 10pm

Dee Dickens


Kathryn O’Driscoll

Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio

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Community Poem February 2025

Now you listen here, biscuit boy!
Compassion is the basis of morality.
I am a reusable cup, please return me

Floating through the dimensionless afternoon
I need to sit down. Where do the fish go at suppertime?

He was the bargain bin otter at the sperm bank,
Then his mouth dropped open and a vole popped out. 
Who is Alan, what is he for? 

Wonderings through witchcraft and struggles to remain men.
Sunsets and moonshine and hobbled, Robbled shoes. 
I left my keys on the kitchen table…

Bazinga-zinga Bazinga-zeng 
Every middle name is a character in Thomas the Tank Engine
Patchwork pattern, puzzle quilted

Life is too short to wait 10 minutes for a gin + tonic
0110001100 When you wave at the computer, your soul waves back.
There is an aging tortoise using face cream?

A line behind a line behind a line behind a line, how many words make up a line, how many letters behind one another lined up together line a line of loves.
The vivacious cat and a suitably startled rat.

Who is Alan, what is he for? 

Satellite of Love Presents: Poetry Film Night

Tuesday 20th May 2025

On board the John Sebastian Lightship

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Satellite of Love Headliners May 28th 2025

At the Loco Klub 7pm for 7.30pm start

Bridget Hart + Elena Chamberlain

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SOL Community Poem, January 2025

Catalytic Converter For Sale


Blackthorne is the Wrongbow, Thatchers rules!
One drink away from being an overly-ambitious power bottom
Yet in the tunnels of love, I will choo choo should
you need the shove.

A low January sun and everything is edged in light
head buzzing like a broken fridge
Unhand me at once you buffoon!
Somewhere a lemon is growing

I saw the cat with something
she said  paint me like one of you French girls
red-raw like the table cloths

Hand dryer eclipsing the words of the bards
mustn’t mute the muntering Munson
snog the mic so it picks you up.

Lurchers? They’re always plotting something
don’t be a hero, be a massive twat, Elon Musk salute
were I a brew crew crusty my dog upon a rope

I’d like to learn more languages
not eat your viral sandwiches.
If Welsh is the answer what is the question?
Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Mary Berry is crocheting a beanie in a sex dungeon.

Satellite of Love: Lyra Open Mic (+ Bertel Martin)

Wednesday 30th April at the Loco Klub
Doors open 7pm Open Mic 7.30pm
Event finishes 9.30pm

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SOL Presents: Aidan Andrew Dun – Excommunications

Book Launch and Open Mic

Wednesday April 16th on The John Sebastian Lightship
Doors open 7pm event starts 7.30pm Close 10pm

The Lightship does not have step free access

Aidan Andrew Dun will be reading from his new collection of 108 modern sonnets titled Excommunications.

Aidan A D has read at the Royal Albert Hall (for the launch of his epic poem Vale Royal in 1995) the Festival Hall, the Ledbury, Cheltenham, and Swindon literary festivals and he has lectured at the British Library on the Kings Cross Mysteries.

Other published works include:

India Cantos -Universal 2002
The Uninhabitable City 2005
Salvia Divinorum 2007
McCool 2010
Unholyland 2016
Excommunications 2025

AAD’s triad installed at Granary Square, Kings Cross, reads: “Kings Cross, dense with angels and histories, there are cities beneath your pavements, cities behind your skies. Let me see!” This triad was originally spray-painted on the walls of Battle Bridge just before it was demolished. The developers noticed it there and asked AAD if they could install the poem in Granary Square.

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Satellite of Love April Headliners: Bradley Taylor & M. L. Walsh

Wednesday 23rd April 2025
On the John Sebastian Lightship
Doors open 7.00pm. Open mic starts 7.30pm – Close 10pm

The Lightship does not have step free access

This month Satellite of Love Open Mic returns to the Lightship for one last time.


Bradley Taylor
is an award-winning performance poet born and based in Birmingham. In 2024 he won the Roundhouse Poetry Slam, the night of which was the biggest poetry slam in history, and in 2025 he releases his debut collection ‘You Missed The Best Part’ with Verve Poetry Press. Bradley is also the co-host of The Big Gay Poetry Night alongside M. L. Walsh, which has featured poets such as Joelle Taylor, Kandace Siobhan Walker & Sanah Ahsan.

Bradley has appeared at the Hay Festival, Cheltenham Literature Festival, The Inspirational Youth Awards, on BBC News and on BBC Radio 6 Music as part of Craig Charle’s ‘Class of 2024’, in which Craig Charles described him as ‘A brand new voice and a fresh perspective on the art of poetry and performance’.

Bradley’s work has appeared in Gutter Magazine, Shooter, Strix and across Birmingham train stations as part of Birmingham Hippodrome’s collaboration with photographer Paul Stringer’s project The City That Spoke To Me.

He writes for, and about, people.

M. L. WALSH is a performance poet specializing in comic absurdism and the construction of narrative through voice and characterisation. Since finding her form in the poetic monologue, she has experimented with the translation of performance poetry from stage to page, and how theatrical technique (and its removal) can modify a text. Her debut collection My Dog Has Never Read This was released in March 2025 with Verve Poetry Press.

Entry requirements:   Anyone under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult 21+ years old.

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