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Music

Words On Wax: Poetry & Vinyl Listening session
Hosted by Repeat Beat Poet & Salena Godden

at Westbourne Park
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Entrance fee: Free to all

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About this event

Where the needle drops, the words rise.
Words on Wax is a monthly gathering of poetry, sound, and soul — inviting poets and writers who’ve pressed their words to vinyl to share their records, their rhythms, and the stories behind the grooves.
Hosted by Repeat Beat Poet, each session is a deep-listening experience — part performance, part conversation — creating space for reflection, connection, and the music between words.
This edition welcomes the extraordinary Salena Godden Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of mixed Jamaican-Irish heritage based in London. Her debut novel, Mrs Death Misses Death was published by Canongate, it won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the People’s Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize.
A hardback edition of Pessimism is for Lightweights – 30 pieces of courage and resistance was published by Rough Trade Books in 2023. The title poem is on permanent display at The Peoples History Museum in Manchester. A new full poetry collection With Love, Grief and Fury and literary childhood memoir Springfield Road – A Poets Childhood Revisited were published with Canongate in 2024. A new paperback edition of With Love, Grief and Fury was published in October 2025.

How to attend

Whether you’re a guest staying with us or a member of the public, please submit your email address and download our mobile app to RSVP. If you already have our app, you’ll be directed to this event to book your spot.