TESTING GROUND
Sun, May 25
|London
BÀRD BOOKS presents ‘Testing Ground’: a night of open-mic poetry, music and live readings from the team behind ‘Off The Chest’ with this month’s poetry feature the incredible JAY MITRA.
Time & Location
May 25, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
London, 341-343 Roman Rd, Bow, London E3 5QR, UK
About the event
BÀRD BOOKS presents ‘Testing Ground’: a night of open-mic poetry, music and live readings from the team behind ‘Off The Chest’ with this month’s poetry feature the incredible JAY MITRA.
Jay Mitra (they/he) is a British Indian punk poet, multi slam champion, and freelance journalist from Hull, currently based in London. Jay was a founding member of Hull’s poetry collective No Larkin About and is also an alumni of Manchester poetry collective Young Identity. They were selected as one of Apples & Snakes’ 40 Future Voices in poetry and were a winner of the Creative Future Writers’ Award in 2023. Jay was joint-third place in the Roundhouse Slam 2023 and is currently a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective 2024. Their poetry has been published in Acumen Poetry, Drawn To The Light Press, Streetcake Magazine and Broken Sleep Books’ Queer Icons anthology. He has been featured on BBC Radio 6…