Manganaro: Performance and Workshop - presented by Trowbridge Stanza

Trowbridge Poetry Stanza presents Manganaro: Performance and Workshop

For our March event, Trowbridge Stanza is delighted to welcome Manganaro, who will be performing their poetry and leading us in a workshop about poetic performance. The workshop will help you to take your poems from page to stage, looking at techniques to take up space on stage with your performance, bringing your words to life, and truly engaging your audience. Bring pen and notebook as ever, plus a poem that you'd like to work on performing.

Manganaro is a poet, performer, and event organiser. They’ve performed across the UK and their writing explores themes of identity, bilingual experience and everyday nuances, drawing on the personal side of political. Manganaro was a 2025 Queer Bath award recipient, the 2024 DIVA Magazine poetry competition winner, and have supported artists such as Alice Oswald. Their work has been featured on BBC upload and in exhibitions as part of Fringe Arts Bath. Within their residency at Emerge, Manganaro has explored the radical history uniting zines and writing, producing a collection of poetry postcards.
Manganaro studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, achieving a First Class Bachelor of Arts with Honours, and spent their placement year travelling around the UK engaging with various arts projects and festivals. Manganaro is passionate about uplifting the local creative community, evident in co-founding Bath’s leading open mic poetry night Chimes, where they co-edited and self-published an anthology of attendees’ work. They programmed the poetry strand for Bath Arts Collective’s Curious Minds Festival 2026.Their debut pamphlet 'This is Where I'm From' was launched this month.

All are welcome to join this Trowbridge Stanza event - please note that entry is by pre-booked ticket only, and as we are welcoming a guest poet, the ticket price is a little higher than usual.

Trowbridge Stanza is affiliated to the Poetry Society. If you have not attended a Trowbridge Stanza event before, please take a moment to read the Poetry Society's 'Stanza's Code of Conduct' which you can find here.

ArtHaus Coffee at Drawing Projects UK will be open from 10am to 3pm.

Please arrive early to get your coffees, tea and/or cake from Arthaus.

The event starts at 2:00pm, with check in from c1:45pm.