Homebrew is a freshly-brewed poetry open mic and feature night at the Hillbilly Social 101, Bounds Green.
Host Laurie Eaves invites you to come share your words on the open mic or just kick back with some lovely food and drink and check out feature sets from some of the UK's best poets.
We're back for a one-off gig on Thursday 23rd of April to celebrate the launch of Laurie's new book Metal Gear Sonnets AND we've got an incredible co-headliner in the wonderful Hannah Gordon!
LAURIE EAVES
Laurie Eaves is a writer and editor from the village of Yapton. His work has been published by Bad Betty Press, fourteen poems, Fawn Press and Shooter amongst others. Most of his poems these days are sonnets based on the Sony PlayStation game Metal Gear Solid.
He co-hosts the Dead Darlings podcast and hosts / produces Genesis Poetry Slam, Genesis Poetry Workshop, Homebrew Poetry and the Vogon Slam. His first collection, Biceps, is out on Burning Eye and his second, Metal Gear Sonnets, just came on Broken Sleep.
HANNAH GORDON
Hannah Gordon is a poet, teacher and facilitator. She was a host of Spoken Word London and co-led their Anti-Hate festival. She is the founder of Word Up’s Words Down writing group and was selected for the inaugural Mid-Career Poets program at the Roundhouse. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies, including Malika’s Poetry Kitchen’s Too Young Too Loud Too Different and she has performed at events all over London and at festivals, including Glastonbury 2025.
OPEN MIC
Open mic slots are 5 minutes each. We have a select number of Open Mic tickets available in advance - if you're lucky enough to grab one of these you're guaranteed a slot on the mic. We'll also have a limited number of slots for sign-ups on the night selected at random from the almighty poetry hat!
A QUICK NOTE ON TICKET PRICES
We've always worked to keep Homebrew as affordable as possible, while also making sure we pay our features a decent fee. For all our gigs up to now, we've been absorbing Eventbrite's booking fees for our ticket sales. This means for every £5 ticket we've sold in advance, we've received around £3.70. So far, that's been enough for us to usually pay our features from the ticket sales alone and any extra cash we've made has gone back into the night (buying mic stands, printing, paying for our cups of tea etc.) But with costs rising, we've made the difficult decision to stop absorbing Eventbrite's fees - a booking fee of around £1.13 will now be added to our advanced ticket sales. This will help us make our events more sustainable and we think it still keeps things as affordable as possible for you, our community. Thanks for your understanding.
- Date / time: Thurs 23rd April, Doors 19:00, Start 19:30, End 22:00
- Price: All tickets £5 + booking fee
- Location: Hillbilly Social, 101 Myddleton Road, N22 8NE
- Tube: Bounds Green (8 mins walk)
- National Rail: Bowes Park (3 mins walk)