Join us for an afternoon of poetry live at Mansfield Central Library with independent publishers Bad Betty Press.

Join us for an afternoon of poetry live at Mansfield Central Library with independent publishers Bad Betty Press, featuring Leanne Moden and Chris Lanyon and hosted by Jake Wild Hall.

Join us to celebrate the work created at Bad Ideas Club - a workshop series conducted over nine weeks in three Nottinghamshire libraries.

For a chance to share your own your own poems on the open mic, please email reading@inspireculture.org.uk in advance. Priority will be given to workshop participants.

About Bad Betty Press

Bad Betty is an award-winning independent publisher of new poetry, and curator of live literature events taking place across the UK.

London-born, Nottingham-based, Bad Betty Press was set up in 2017 by Amy Acre and Jake Wild Hall with the aim of showcasing exciting and risk-taking poetry, supporting poets’ artistic development and celebrating stories less often told.

Bad Betty won the Michael Marks Publisher’s Award in 2022, and was a regional finalist for the British Book Awards Small Press of the Year in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Their books have won or been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Michael Marks Award, the Laurel Prize, Polari First Book Prize and BAMB Readers’ Award, featured in the Guardian‘s Best Recent Poetry, and selected as a Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and several times as Pamphlet Choice.

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