The Men Pomes

Wed 29th Feb to Sat 3rd Mar 2012 @ 8.00pm

Studio Salford, The King's Arms, 11 Bloom St, Salford M3 6AN

(Bloom St is a continuation of Mcr's John Dalton St & Bridge St)

£7/£5 - tickets from www.studiosalford.com

Written by & starring Gerry Potter

Produced by Dominic Berry

In his new, full length, one man show the writer of the smash hit play “Miracle” finally comes to terms with his masculinity and the men who buttered and battered it into shape.

From the drug induced surreal to the gutter sparkle dirty real, Gerry Potter delves into all things male, exploring the camaraderie of brothers, the abandonment of fathers and the wit and wisdom of Scousers in a collision of bravado, humour and grief. The man who lived as Chloe Poems for fifteen years unearths working class men as you’ve never seen them before.

The sell-out success of The Manchester Literature Festival at Contact Theatre, “The Men Pomes” is for men and women of all ages, stages and rages and is produced by Dominic Berry.

“In the Scotland Road area of Liverpool men didn’t say poems. They said “pomes”. I think Scouse men think the word poem or poems might make them sound as effeminate as a bohemian crafts teacher, so they butch it up, give it a more bedraggled bullied tone. I like the rugged industry of “pomes” and the malleable creative history of poems. In the middle of those two words is the gender of how and why I write.

I remember one bloke saying, “Don’t like that many pomes, but that pome by Blake, y’know, the burnin’ tiger one... that’s fuckin’ boss.”

The Men Pomes. Because men don’t say poems.”

What would happen if three modern performance poets in search of inspiration for future shows asked the public for random themes? They'd probably end up with generic stuff like "life" "death" "love" and "hate" right? That’s what they thought too… but the public had other ideas.

Join The Working Verse collective (Kieren King, Benny-Jo Zahl and Dave Viney) as they take poetry out of its comfort zone, slap it with a kipper, then cook it tea and ask for it’s forgiveness.

Suitable for ages 14+. 

Book Launch: Wizard by Dominic Berry at Manchester City Library, Deansgate. 6pm on 8th December. Free.