We are delighted to announce our guest poet for this Friday's (25th) Open Mic is the highly regarded and talented David Braziel.

David is a Poet, writer and spoken word performer. Four times winner of the Belfast Book Festival Poetry Slam and a regional and national finalist in the All Ireland Poetry Slam. David has hosted and performed shows at the Lingo Festival in Dublin and on the “Live from the Sunflower” comedy showcase broadcast on BBC Radio. In 2015 David supported spoken word artist Polar Bear at the Aspects Festival in Bangor. David’s first collection of poems “I Am Not a Poet - And Other Poems” was published in 2015 and his one-person show “Too Big for Words” was performed in Belfast in 2017.