Big Trouble with Clara-Læïla Laudette and Chika Jones
12 Degrees Micropub, Rochester, ME1 1DJ
Wednesday 9th September 2026
Bouncing back with the bravado of a post-scandal MP, Big Trouble brings you another night of primo poetic peformances as well as our usual roundtable open mic. This time our double-barrel poetry punch comes from the dazzling Clara-Læïla Laudette and Chika Jones!
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Clara-Læïla Laudette is a writer, facilitator and journalist. Appetite, her debut pamphlet, is published by fourteen poems.
She won Magma Judge’s Prize and placed third in the Poetry London and London Magazine Prizes. An Adrienne Rich Poetry Award semifinalist, she’s been shortlisted for the Oxford Poetry, Bridport Poetry and Pat Kavanagh prizes, the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition, among others. Her poems, translations and reviews are widely published.
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Chika Jones has been a performance poet for over 13 years. He runs a monthly poetry event in Medway called Medway Poetry Night and believes Art projects should be built sustainably. He is working on his first full length of poetry and procrastinating that by writing essays.
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Big Trouble makes a lot of noise in a small space - make sure to get your tickets early from our links or at ticketsource.co.uk/big-trouble ! There is limited on-street parking outside the venue or you can find parking at the Easons Yard public car park.
Unfortunately due to the limitations of the venue this event is not wheelchair accessible.
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Clara-Læïla Laudette is a writer, facilitator and journalist. Appetite, her debut pamphlet, is published by fourteen poems.
She won Magma Judge’s Prize and placed third in the Poetry London and London Magazine Prizes. An Adrienne Rich Poetry Award semifinalist, she’s been shortlisted for the Oxford Poetry, Bridport Poetry and Pat Kavanagh prizes, the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition, among others. Her poems, translations and reviews are widely published.
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Chika Jones has been a performance poet for over 13 years. He runs a monthly poetry event in Medway called Medway Poetry Night and believes Art projects should be built sustainably. He is working on his first full length of poetry and procrastinating that by writing essays.
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Big Trouble makes a lot of noise in a small space - make sure to get your tickets early from our links or at ticketsource.co.uk/big-trouble ! There is limited on-street parking outside the venue or you can find parking at the Easons Yard public car park.
Unfortunately due to the limitations of the venue this event is not wheelchair accessible.
