Join Syntax Poetry for a comeback of Write Club at Chauffeurs. Originally created by poets Mark Grist, Charley Genever and Keely Mills back in 2016, Write Club is best described as Fight Club-meets a pokemon battle-meets a poetry slam.

It’s a night of spoken word but there are three team captains, each with an army of poets and just 20 minutes. They’ll be penning lines responding to the theme of ‘necessity as a mother of invention’. You, as the audience, decide which team is the winner. Expect a night of joy, catharsis and thanks…oh, and a little trash talk.

Book your free tickets here.

This session is part of ‘What’s Possible When Things Go Wrong’ programme, a series of celebrations, sharings, and dinners to mark our final moments in the building and to explore what is possible when the sh*t hits the fan.

About Syntax Poetry Collective
Syntax are a collective of Peterborough based poets who look after the Peterborough Poet Laureate campaign and aim to be the poetry lungs of the Peterborough poetry scene. They also run poetry events and projects like the Syntax Calendar. Created in 2019 with the support of Metal, in their first year they produced the Syntax Poetry Festival and they have gone on to support, connect and platform poetry in Peterborough.

@syntaxpoetrycollective & syntaxpoetryfestival.wordpress.com

What’s Possible When Things Go Wrong
Metal and the other organisations based at Chauffeurs Cottage will be leaving in December. It wasn’t our decision and it’s one we’re still trying to get our heads around, but we’re working hard to find a new space in the city that will be just as wonderful, whilst celebrating all the magical moments we’ve spent here.

Being thrown into this situation has made us reflect on ‘necessity as a mother of invention’ – being faced with a challenging situation and being inspired to create a new imaginative solution. It’s made us dream about inspiring futures and what a queer, accessible, anti-racist space would look like from scratch.