13 Young Black Poets You Should Know. Spoken Word Poetry. Spoken Word London is an open-mic night founded by Patrick Cash, and hosted by Hannah Gordon and Jamal Hassan. Ascend Ascend was written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church. Spoken word is a great way to express your truth to others through poetry and performance. Pawns in the pocket of political persuasion Southbank Centre, SE1, poetrylibrary.org.uk, Poetry please: There are plenty of places in London to hear live poetry, William Wordsworth called it the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” and Emily Dickinson said it made her feel as if the top of her head had been taken off. Hacene, visiting from France, began our night with some refreshing paeans to peace and happiness: ‘Everything you are powerfully affirming with lovely feelings is creating a peaceful reality.’. Poetry Corner. I have performed in Kuala Lumpur based spoken word rooms like Oral Fixation, Jalan Dalam, Jack It!, Ji Dan, Poetea and Spoken Word @ NOSE. 222 likes. If you do well, you might get offered a featured slot at the next show. What - Apples and Snakes, England's leading performance poetry organisation, bring a showcase of the best spoken word. The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen Mort Alexa is a police community support officer whose world feels unstable. Found inside – Page 239180 mins): digital Ted Hughes Reading His Poetry (London: HarperCollins, 2005 [1996]) The Spoken Word: Poetry in the Making (London: British Library/BBC, 2008) Poems not in Collected Poems Football (Alton: Clarion Publishing, ... May 04, 2015 at 7:14 pm. Nathan was third to our stage in Round 2, telling us his poignant short story piece: ‘I find my body an awkward fit… But with her, it fit… Her name sings, not like Nathan… Then she left.’. POETS & MONOLOGUES - OPEN MIC 2021. Break free of its strictures "I find performing poetry so cathartic, especially when you're performing it to an audience that looks like you." Poetry has a long and rich history in Asia but increasingly British Asians are finding a place in one its offshoots - spoken word. Many thanks to Sees Cer for being the timekeeper on the night and for George Sydney Selwyn-Brace for taking some brilliant photos. The days of stuffy, pretentious performance poetry in empty hipster cafés are long gone. Watch the livestream of our Borderlines poetry performance with 18-25 year old . The power of my words Now five years old, the Slam is an annual chance for poets aged 16-25 to go head to head in front of a live audience . Jacqueline Whymark, the Director of FtHM, had been 'encouraged' to perform at her first Spoken Word event in London in May 2017. It offers a supportive environment for first timers to have a go, and if you catch the bug you could even win a ten minute featured slot at the next night. Although our SLAMbassadors competition is no longer running, we continue to run spoken word masterclasses and slams in schools up and down the UK . Tue, Oct 26, 6:30 PM. B. Gregory. Although some of the poems touch on heavy topics such as suicide, they are all clean and classroom-friendly in terms of language used. STORM is the illustrated book born from the acclaimed internet sensation - the animation that has become an anthem for critical thinking worldwide, attracting over three million views. Bring your 1-minute, 2-minute and 3-minute poems or just come to cheer on Ottawa's very best spoken word artists while sampling the best Louisiana Cajun food in town! Spoken word is one of the UK's fastest-growing artforms, and the Roundhouse is fast becoming one of the biggest names on the London scene. Best poetry and spoken word literary nights in London. Crimson Red (Zela Burg) The following slam poem was submitted by poet Zela Burg, hailing from Greater London, UK. If you've ever looked for an entry point into the spoken word world, consider The Last Word, the London Roundhouse's annual festival of the art, your gateway drug.Across 19 days, an incredible . Each year we search for the next generation of spoken word artists, rappers and MCs. Captives to the caprices of capitalisation HOLLYWOOD STAGE. This book explores creative writing and its various relationships to education through a number of short, evocative chapters written by key players in the field. Another comedian came after Mr Piper, but of a somewhat different ilk, the star of BBC2’s Inside Claridges (which he asked to be introduced as), Timothy Lock who was dressed to the nines in a powder blue suit; ‘I had a more casual outfit chosen but unfortunately Miley Cyrus wore it at the VMAs.’, Ishmail Einashe had the hard job of following the two confident comedic acts but pulled it off with aplomb, speaking from his friend Warsan Shire’s poetic collection Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth; ‘my body’s burning with the shape of not belonging.’ Breaking the reflective pall, this round climaxed with Jack Cole’s inspired reimagining of Dr Seuss, named ‘Up the Bum’; ‘do you like it up the bum? Show all posts. If you can speak it, come along and have others hear it. Unavailable. The Poetry Exchange Event. WEDNESDAY APRIL 7TH 7.30-9.30PM Born Lippy & Spoken present -THE POETRY EXCHANGE Live and direct from a stage to your living room. Lady Brion is an international spoken word artist, poetry coach, activist, organizer, and educator. We welcomed Raj back to the stage fourth on Round 2, who told us ‘the burnished tongue of aspiring youth shall melt.’ Raj’s poem ‘New York’ is published in the Belleville Park Pages, and more of his poetry can be read at his blog, Freedom Art. Coinciding with the football World Cup, WORDCUP2014 is a celebratory spoken word project for young people aged 13-15. Everyone gets five minutes to sha. With qualifications /. Every. Above all, we are witnessing many British Asian female spoken word poets gain attention for their exciting work. ), opened our final round of the night with a straight-talking piece, ‘mingling our spirt with their shit.’. Many thanks to all who read at our last event and to the great George Sydney Selwyn-Brace for the wonderful set of photographs. Don’t be fooled Alain closed our third round, delivering a highly politically charged polemic to the room: ‘Here’s to the lonely… the homeless… Let the survivors have a chance to tell the real story.’ Alain runs his own spoken word night named Paper Tiger Poetry down at the Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall every second Friday of the month. Put on the spot, she gave us three pieces from memory: ‘to me it was just a hand / a hand attached to an arm attached to a he / outward bound we get around / but never lost, but he shook me off / and I dropped my mojito / and wandered off.’. So, just as the rhymes freely trip off the tongues of the poets, let your calendar fill up with all the expansive and experimental expression London has to offer. The Best. Returning poet James Hope Wilson spoke third of ‘the boy, the man, the vacant man, the fire at the fire station’ and ‘it was a catastrophe, there can be no doubt.’, Mr Nick Blackburn graced the SWL stage for the first time in the fourth lines, telling his lines of how he ‘came in tiny droplets of blood and shit, like paint.’, And our fifth speaker of Round 5 was Nash, impassioned and speaking out against ignorance: ‘their thoughts are there but they lack that clout.’. Everyone gets five minutes to share their own (or others') work with an audience of likeminded, supportive people. Come and check us out in our new venue at the Cajun Attic in Ottawa's Byward Market. Poetry Slam wins include: Word Up Amsterdam 2020, Rappers vs Poets 2020 (Poetry Team), Rappers vs Poets 2019 (Poetry Team), The Hammer & Tongue London Slam Final 2018, The Great Northern Poetry Slam, Jibba Jabba, the UK Anti-Slam Apocalypse, the Utter Space Poetry Slam, the London Anti-Slam, the TFL/Saatchi Travel Better London Slam, and the . April was is in full swing last month and the air is filled with poetry and spring. We broadcast compelling content for your pleasure, whether you're at work or play, indoors or out, 24/7. The message behind Revolutionary, reflective and romantic, I Am Nobody's Nigger is the powerful debut collection by one of the UK's finest emerging poets. In 2019, Bridie was awarded funding from Arts Council England to develop a full-length, one-woman performance: Casino Zero. Boasting six branches in various cities in the south of England, Hammer & Tongue’s London events take place at the Book Club in Shoreditch. Doors 8pm, arrive 8-9pm to sign up for a slot, readings begin 9pm. I have participated in the Queerlah Lumpur Poetry Slam 2019, MerdekaRya Fest Poetry Slam 2019, and Urbanscapes 2019. The last round as ever was occupied by those who wanted to either be drunk or wanted their audience to be drunk and we sparked things off with a thoughtful Mem Zepper, asking ‘what happens to your name after it is written down?’ and ‘spelling philosophy without the I’. And thank you also to everyone who came and listened and everyone who came and spoke, you make the night what it is. A monthly poetry slam series for spoken word artists, poets, emcees and word lovers in London. As always, I am afraid that I may have misquoted people so please let me know – not only this time did I have to contend with my drunken scribbling but also the notes got rather soaked in last Friday’s biblical downpour, so please message and let me know if I’ve given you a complete paraphrase error. by Genesis Mendoza. So, just as the rhymes freely trip off the tongues of the poets, let your calendar fill up with all the expansive and experimental expression London has to offer. The Poetry Society works with young people in primary and secondary schools, sixth forms, youth groups, young traveler centres - anywhere where there are young people who have a story to tell. If you want to add an event, please submit the event details online here.If you are organising a course, group or competition in the UK, please email the details to our Digital Editor at listings@poetrylondon.co.uk, and we will add them to the relevant page of the website. We ask London's spoken word artists about their influences and where to see live poetry in the city. I’ll be happy to edit and correct! Spoken Word London 6 is on Wednesday 9th October at Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XB. Over Ssix months poets from Newcastle & London have visited each others cities to co-create spoken word to inspire social change. Unsurprisingly, London finds itself at the epicentre of this blooming verbiage and many nights are cheap or even free to attend. There was a time when performance Poetry was a poor relation to the high brow stuff. Sam Francis appropriately followed this dive down to the depths with lyrics from his zombie-thrash band; ‘the old man wanted a response from the boy.’, Finally, ending off Round 1, we had Vicki K and her laptop, reading her energetic, rhythmical paean to Ginsberg’s Howl and dissection of modern-day America; ‘Alan is anyone still in Rockland?’ she asked, before starting ‘I can only look at America through the wrong end of a telescope.’, Sam Rossi-Harries began the second round with his musings on job applications, ‘I must have written over fifty cover letters in the past week’, he said, and then spoke of the lies he tells in the interviews themselves: ‘I told her I that I had a passion for human resources / I told her that I was proficient in Excel / and then I told her I was personable / personable: I’m a person.’. A donation of 50p from the sale of each copy of this book will be made to and shared equally between the charities First Story and Forward Arts Foundation to help further creative writing in schools. While often associated with hip-hop culture, it also has strong ties to storytelling, modern poetry, post-modern performance, and monologue theater, as well as jazz, blues, and folk music. Poetry Spoken Here. February 10, 2019. Free. PEER and Shoreditch Library presents Swirl of Words / Swirl of Worlds, an exhibition, programme of events and workshops and poetry publication which intersects visual arts with the spoken and printed word through the lens of poetry. The Back to School club night with a difference - Feminism Poetry and Gin is bringing Sex and Relationship Education to the masses via the medium of gin, spoken word and some serious over-sharing. Next up was a newcomer not only to Spoken Word London but to the spoken word scene in general, yet Sarbjit Yohal had the audience attentive to her discursions upon human rights, ‘freedom of speech but attack the BNP we must not’ she said, and told us the story of the Indian woman who said no to sex; ‘she said no / he attacked her with an axe / shot her with a pistol.’, From a fresher to a well-known face on the London poetry scene, Tom Bland spoke to us of how ‘he likes a bit of misery in his own words’ and ‘if you want to live, go out and get some prostitutes’ before beginning his piece ‘where ravens swooped down and pecked a boy’s face’. However you prefer to think of. James Bird, who runs the excellent Belleville Park Pages contemporary writing project (which is always looking for contributors to be printed! Discover the next generation of spoken word talent as poets aged 16-25 take to the spotlight to compete for the much-coveted title of Roundhouse Poetry Slam . BOXPARK Croydon • Croydon. ‘The Naked Poet’, Ernesto Sarezale, returned to us a second time but this time kept his clothes on, delivering us a poem about a one-night stand who left his belly button around his house: ‘is that a belly button?’ he cried.’ Ernesto is a regular performer on the spoken word scene and runs his own Velvet Tongue erotic literary soiree in Shoreditch, check out his website here. Chill Pill is what it says on the tin – a laid back atmosphere where up and coming talent rubs shoulders with some of the hottest spoken word artists out there. In 2008, we launched our first-ever Poetry Slam. We’ll hope to see you all at Spoken Word London 5 on Wednesday 25th September at Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XB. BYOB Poetry South 5 ft. Careen + Fisky + open mic! As always many thanks to all those who came along to read, all those who came along to listen, and to two wonderful people: George Sydney Selwyn-Brace for taking photos and Timothy Lock for splicing apart the audio files. Since Spoken Word and poetry slams have come into the picture, poetry has acquired a brand new charm. Prize For Poetry 2020; Prize For Poetry 2019; Prize For Poetry 2018; Prize For Poetry 2017 If you poetry haters happen to find yourself at a poetry night, you can catch this night across the country, from Latitude to Brighton Festival, but they appear regularly in venues across London, with gigs at the Soho Theatre and National Poetry Library. Spoken Word London at Vogue Fabrics, Dalston, 66 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, Greater London, N16 7XB. Doors 8pm, arrive 8-9pm to sign up for a slot, readings begin 9pm. Join our teams as they come together on stage for the live WORDCUP2014 poetry slam final. This is more of a resource for poetry lovers to enjoy to their heart’s content. Finally, finishing off the night was newcomer the lovely Molly who said, ‘don’t ignore them, words are always waiting.’ Quite. Wonderful SWL regular Sam Rossi-Harries went third in Round 4; ‘my fingers grasped the throat of every petty ghost in my world.’, The very swell Miss Alice Selwyn-Brace was the penultimate act of the night, giving her poetic observations of life as she knows it and the men she meets; ‘it wasn’t the way his Topman scarf was tucked into his ironic M&S cardigan.’. Third on Round 3 was myself (Pat), delivering a poetic piece upon the mythology of celebrity and the realness of a kiss; ‘I am not the collecting of Tesco clubcard points / I don’t want the X Factor to tell me when to cry.’, Newcomer Misty Miller came on fourth in Round 3 with her short, effective piece ‘I Left my Heart in Homerton’; ‘I left my heart in Homerton / I don’t want to see that organ again / if you find her on the street or see her riding in cars / with jacked-up boys and loaded toys / then let that damn car pass.’, And finally in Round 3 it was an emotional farewell to one of our best loved regular speakers, the very swell Miss Alice Selwyn-Brace, who was departing back to Paris where our sister night and inspiration Spoken Word Paris resides. Housed at the Southbank Centre, it has the most comprehensive collection of poetry in Britain from 1912 onwards. Bingo Master's Breakout - London's Premier Poetry Karaoke Bingo night Chocolate Poetry Club Farrago slams Hammer and Tongue slams(in Cambridge and in London) Jazz Verse Jukebox Let's Talk Queer POC Paper Tiger Poetry Platform 1 Poetry Poetry Jam @ Folkore 186 Poetry Unplugged Rhymes With Orange She Grrrowls Speak= SPOKEN WORD LONDON Sun at . Spoken Word is poetry intended for onstage performance, rather than exclusively designed for the page. Ditch it The rise of spoken word educators in UK schools. Their website also contains an invaluable listings section of where to hear poetry in London. BYOB Poetry South 5 ft. Careen + Fisky + open mic! Poetrychevron-down--small. Fri, Oct 29, 18:00. ‘I wanted to say / ‘that’s not me, that’s not me at all.’. London based Art House specialising in (Organic & Ethical) Fashion, Spoken Word/ Poetry and Theatre. BYOB Poetry South 5 ft. Careen + Fisky + open mic! Contact the event organiser. She has been performing since age 12 and in that time has performed across the world including London, Ghana, Zanzibar and many US states. Hammer and Tongue is a fixture in venues from Brighton to Bristol, but it also has a year round programme in London. *LQW (London Queer Writers) is a writing collective comprised of LGBTQIA identifying poets, spoken word artists, live artists, facilitators and academics hoping to contribute to the London poetry and spoken word scene. BYOB Poetry South 5 ft. Careen + Fisky + open mic! Whilst to finish off the second round another doyen of the London poetry scene, and he enjoyed being described as a doyen, John-Paul O’Neill of Farrago Poetry gave us the ‘DNA threads within my heart strings’. Free entry. The UK's poetry slam people, making new champions and promoting the best in touring Spoken Word. Shed it Bang Said The Gun describes itself as ‘poetry for people who don’t like poetry’. In this book, this point is argued with rich and convincing evidence from virtually all fields of linguistics. The Dalston outfit takes its show to Edinburgh Fringe each year so, who knows, with some luck you could find your own ticket up north. Share this event. Doors 8pm, arrive 8-9pm to sign up for a slot, readings begin 9pm. Our Spoken Word Classes are ideal for those who want to understand the structure and form of spoken word poetry. With beautifully illustrated poems, Honeybee is a collection of poetry that celebrates the resilience of the human heart through stages of each chapter: navigating heritage hurting this body rising and healing ★ All royalties from this ... Photo of Rob Auton by Wasi Daniju. The UK's poetry slam people, making new champions and promoting the best in touring Spoken Word "Hammer & Tongue have reinvented the medium for the hip hop generation" . Many thanks again to the wonderful George Sydney Selwyn-Brace for the night’s photos which are available to view here. On the other end of the spectrum, I started doing spoken word poetry in March 2019. Beth returned second in Round 2 to give us Part II of her wonderful poem about being a teacher in a school and an inverted paean to the city itself: ‘you see the thing is Tower Hamlets is full of oh so many towers / and people are too scared to come down and face the hours… So many blocks of people living on top of each other / In the concrete shanty town… They are too scared to ever look down for fear of what they may see / A poor white reflection staring upwards in indulgent dream.’, Third on Round 4 was Bruce who told us ‘the truth is all I have to give… Look past my colour, and see my features.’, Vicky K returned to the stage in Round 4 to give us piece with ‘more sadness than mayonaise.’. She trained at the Manchester School of Theatre where she discovered the unity between activism and poetry, led by the likes of Shakespeare, Morrissey and Maxine Peak. SWL regular Timothy Lock, star of BBC2’s ‘Inside Claridges’, provided the laughs with another five minute standup set second. ATL's Word on the Street - A night of poetry & music Sun, Nov 21, 18:00 Founder of one of London's well renown poetry nights, Da Poetry Jam. Mr Stuart Malcolm Honey started the night with readings from a Tourism Guide to Syria, given to him when he worked in the country, which reflected poignantly upon recent politics. ‘This piece specialises in giving up before he starts,’ he says, before giving us his inspirational piece on finding confidence in the instrument he has been given, his voice. We now have audio links! Save POETS & MONOLOGUES - OPEN MIC 2021 to your collection. Note the emphatic bell-ringing at its end. Digte. Central to the collection is the figure of the poet's mother, whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentieth-century China are sensitively threaded. Little Sower Samuel loves to garden. When he looks around and sees that the city does not have enough of the greenness he loves, Samuel embarks on a mission of sharing, giving seedlings and joy to all around. A story sown in rhyme
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