First Friday on October 4th is hitting the town in a special all-day partnership with Margate Bookie! Join old friends and make new ones at The Margate School, where Marine Studios is co-hosting an afternoon of book loving activities. Book yourself onto a bookbinding workshop with our friend Hope Fitzgerald from Bindfulness and bring along a book you loved or loathed to swap at Bee’s Bookshare.
Afterwards, get yourself to the Dreamland Ballroom for an evening hosted by the Kent Poetry Championship Slam with headliner Raymond Antrobus. An absolute legend in contemporary British poetry, Raymond Antrobus is the winner of the 2019 Ted Hughes award, the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize, author of the beautiful poetry collections To Sweeten Bitter, The Perseverance and All the Names Given, and the children’s picture book Can Bears Ski?.