Mike Garry has been played on NTS shows including Dubuntu, with St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H Wilson (Andrew Weatherall Remix) first played on 1 August 2020.

Mike Garry (from Manchester, United Kingdom) was a librarian for fifteen years, before becoming a poet and a spoken word artist. He began by reading his own poems to the hundreds of young people who attended his Library Homework Centre. They loved what they heard and encouraged him to perform them at live poetry events and slams, which he did, instantly winning fans and prizes throughout the U.K. His gritty poetry has won admiration far and wide.

Mike has worked in thousands of schools and his three books, Men’s Morning, Mancunian Meander and God is a Manc have become schemes of work in schools throughout the U.K. and his poetry is regularly heard on BBC Radio and TV. He has read his poems in prisons, young offenders units, mental health hospitals, children's homes, youth clubs and local pubs. He’s passionate about bringing live poetry to places it wouldn’t normally reach and to people who wouldn’t normally listen to it.

His performances are passionate swirling rhythms of thoughts and emotions converted to monologues of quick-fire words.