Poet’s Palace
Jess Murrain + Brandon Webb + J Solstice (Guitar)
Poet’s Palace is back, discovering new poetic talent and inviting new wonderful audiences to spoken word events in Norwich! Hosted by previous London headliner and local poet extraordinaire Rhian Brooke.
There will be eight open mic slots, two of which will be wild card picks on the night.
The audience will vote for their favourite open micer and the winner will feature at our next Norwich event.
Headliners for this show are the hilarious Brandon Webb (the winner of the audience vote from the last show) and the glorious Jess Murrain.
Jess Murrain
Jess Murrain (she/they) is an interdisciplinary creative working mainly as a poet, theatre-maker, actor, artist filmmaker and co-founder of ‘Theatre with Legs’, a queer, experimental live art company based in Bradford whose latest work ‘NEUROQUEER’ is being developed/produced by Bradford City of Culture, Castles in the Sky and Marlborough Productions.
Jess is alumnus of Southbank New Poets Collective (21/22), winner of a 2021 Creative Future Writers’ Award, 2021 Ledbury Poetry Prize and 2023 Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry & Poetry in Film. Her debut poetry-film series ‘WE KINGS’ was award winning and centres black masculinities through her own queer and feminist lens.
Her poetry, essays and conversation has appeared in Magma, The Poetry Review, Tentacular, bath magg, Under the Radar and Callaloo (forthcoming). Her debut poetry pamphlet, ‘One Woman-Horse Show’ is published with Bad Betty Press (2022).
Brandon Webb
Brandon Webb is a performance poet, writer, actor and comedian living in Norwich. Originally from Great Yarmouth, Brandon has been dubbed “The bad boy of the Norfolk and Norwich poetry scene”. No one’s sure why or who said it, but he’s hoping it sticks. After studying Theatre at York St John University, Brandon has gone on to gain writing credits for Radio Norfolk’s BBC New Comedy Show and Radio 4’s Newsjack. He has performed at prominent poetry nights both in the UK and The Netherlands, including Say Owt, Labyrinth and TOAST, co-headlining the latter with Mark Grist. Combining satire, surrealism and social commentary, Brandon’s poetry delves deeply into subjects such as capitalism, cheeseburgers and lost cats…
