Check out the second episode of Dead Darlings Podcast, hosted by Rebecca Cooney, Laurie Eaves and Hannah Chutzpah and featuring an interview with the legendary Fay Roberts!
Also check out their comprehensive spoken word/poetry listings for this month, as well as submissions opportunities in the post below:
Also check out their comprehensive spoken word/poetry listings for this month, as well as submissions opportunities in the post below:
Dead Darlings Podcast
And we're back with the second episode of Dead Darlings Podcast! In this episode me (Laurie Eaves Poet), Rebecca Cooney and Hannah Chutzpah go on a rhyming road-trip to Cambridge for a chat with the indefatigable Fay Roberts.
Fay is one of the most inclusive and thoughtful hosts working in UK spoken word. We've all learnt a lot from them over the years and there's tonnes of great advice in here for hosts, promoters and performers!
Our live poem of the month comes courtesy of the poetry powerhouse Edalia Day, fresh from their Ed Fringe show Too Pretty to Punch. And we also find time for a chat about Roger Robinson's fab new collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press).
We also big-up a tonne of nights, poets and books including:
Events:
- Poetry Unplugged at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden on Tuesday 3rd/10th/17th/24th
- Boxed INtimate is BACK! at The Plough, Homerton
- Spoken Word London - 4th September at VFD, Dalston (also on the 18th)
- Genesis Poetry Slam at Genesis Cinema, Stepney Green - 5th Sept
- A double bill of Door-to-Door Poetry (The Show) at Canada Water Theatre and Canada Water Open Mic (05/09) at Canada Water Library
- Alter Egos Launch with Bad Betty Press - DIY Space, nr. Old Kent Road, 5th Sept (BSL interpreted)
- Hammer & Tongue Cambridge 2018-19 Season Slam Final - at Cambridge Junction, 6th Sept
- Your Bard at Bramleys - Rebirth - Bramley's Cocktail Bar, Canterbury, 9th Sept
- Big Trouble! w/ Maggie Harris and Pauline Holmes - Rams Micropub, Rochester, 10th Sept
- Boomerang Club #55 featuring Amy Acre and ???? - Rutland Arms, Hammersmith, 11th Sept
- You're Hysterical's 2nd Birthday! featuring our friends Hannah Gordon, Ruby Martin and a bunch of other awesome poets we're excited to see, The Star of Kings, King's Cross, 12th Sept
- LicKitySpit with Tom Gill - The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 18th Sept
- Pen-Ting Vol.22 (Ft. Roger Robinson & Gboyega Odubanjo) - SET Dalston, 19th Sept
- Harry Baker: I am 10.000 (Making Waves Festival) - Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate, 28th Sept (I've seen it - it's great!)
- Allographic Open Mic, CUC Wine Bar, Cambridge, 29th Sept with Fay Roberts
And also London Queer Writers' Speak= (don't think their dates are up yet!)
Workshops:
- Words Down:The Writing Session - Every Tuesday (so 3rd, 10th,17th, 24th), Rubio, Harlesden
Submissions Opps:
- Apples and Snakes' Writing Room applications are open! GET ON IT! Closes 27th Sept - 18-25 year olds
- Submissions for Fly on the Wall Poetrywebzine 4 are open. Theme is Chaos, closes October 30th. Winners get a free pdf download and a share of any royalties from the 1st months sales
- Frontier Poetry award - ends 15th Sept
- Asia House Poetry Slam - looking for poems with relevance to Asia and/or the diaspora. Judged by Theresa Lola and Imtiaz Dharker - 18-25 year olds, closes 30th Sept
- The Aryamati Poetry Prize is looking for poems on the theme of ‘Change’ by poets who write for social change and peace – that closes at midday on October 3rd. For more information visit www.flyonthewallpoetry.co.uk
- The Dempsey and Windle’s National Poetry Day Competition is also open throughout August and will close on September 15th. The competition is looking for poems on any theme, and the 20 best poems will be published in an anthology. For more information visit dempseyandwindle.com
Edinburgh Highlights We Missed Last Time That You Should See If They Tour:
- The Empathy Experiment with Rose Condo
- Fat Roland's 7" with Fat Roland
- One Foot In The Rave with Alexander Rhodes
- Meatball Séance with John Michael
- Kill The Princess at Edinburgh Fringe with Michelle Madsen and Lizzy Shakespeare
- Equality and Perversity with Serin Thomasin
Phew! Don't think we chatted that much about books this time... We'll do that next time.
Check a look and flood your boots! x
Fay is one of the most inclusive and thoughtful hosts working in UK spoken word. We've all learnt a lot from them over the years and there's tonnes of great advice in here for hosts, promoters and performers!
Our live poem of the month comes courtesy of the poetry powerhouse Edalia Day, fresh from their Ed Fringe show Too Pretty to Punch. And we also find time for a chat about Roger Robinson's fab new collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press).
We also big-up a tonne of nights, poets and books including:
Events:
- Poetry Unplugged at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden on Tuesday 3rd/10th/17th/24th
- Boxed INtimate is BACK! at The Plough, Homerton
- Spoken Word London - 4th September at VFD, Dalston (also on the 18th)
- Genesis Poetry Slam at Genesis Cinema, Stepney Green - 5th Sept
- A double bill of Door-to-Door Poetry (The Show) at Canada Water Theatre and Canada Water Open Mic (05/09) at Canada Water Library
- Alter Egos Launch with Bad Betty Press - DIY Space, nr. Old Kent Road, 5th Sept (BSL interpreted)
- Hammer & Tongue Cambridge 2018-19 Season Slam Final - at Cambridge Junction, 6th Sept
- Your Bard at Bramleys - Rebirth - Bramley's Cocktail Bar, Canterbury, 9th Sept
- Big Trouble! w/ Maggie Harris and Pauline Holmes - Rams Micropub, Rochester, 10th Sept
- Boomerang Club #55 featuring Amy Acre and ???? - Rutland Arms, Hammersmith, 11th Sept
- You're Hysterical's 2nd Birthday! featuring our friends Hannah Gordon, Ruby Martin and a bunch of other awesome poets we're excited to see, The Star of Kings, King's Cross, 12th Sept
- LicKitySpit with Tom Gill - The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 18th Sept
- Pen-Ting Vol.22 (Ft. Roger Robinson & Gboyega Odubanjo) - SET Dalston, 19th Sept
- Harry Baker: I am 10.000 (Making Waves Festival) - Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate, 28th Sept (I've seen it - it's great!)
- Allographic Open Mic, CUC Wine Bar, Cambridge, 29th Sept with Fay Roberts
And also London Queer Writers' Speak= (don't think their dates are up yet!)
Workshops:
- Words Down:The Writing Session - Every Tuesday (so 3rd, 10th,17th, 24th), Rubio, Harlesden
Submissions Opps:
- Apples and Snakes' Writing Room applications are open! GET ON IT! Closes 27th Sept - 18-25 year olds
- Submissions for Fly on the Wall Poetrywebzine 4 are open. Theme is Chaos, closes October 30th. Winners get a free pdf download and a share of any royalties from the 1st months sales
- Frontier Poetry award - ends 15th Sept
- Asia House Poetry Slam - looking for poems with relevance to Asia and/or the diaspora. Judged by Theresa Lola and Imtiaz Dharker - 18-25 year olds, closes 30th Sept
- The Aryamati Poetry Prize is looking for poems on the theme of ‘Change’ by poets who write for social change and peace – that closes at midday on October 3rd. For more information visit www.flyonthewallpoetry.co.uk
- The Dempsey and Windle’s National Poetry Day Competition is also open throughout August and will close on September 15th. The competition is looking for poems on any theme, and the 20 best poems will be published in an anthology. For more information visit dempseyandwindle.com
Edinburgh Highlights We Missed Last Time That You Should See If They Tour:
- The Empathy Experiment with Rose Condo
- Fat Roland's 7" with Fat Roland
- One Foot In The Rave with Alexander Rhodes
- Meatball Séance with John Michael
- Kill The Princess at Edinburgh Fringe with Michelle Madsen and Lizzy Shakespeare
- Equality and Perversity with Serin Thomasin
Phew! Don't think we chatted that much about books this time... We'll do that next time.
Check a look and flood your boots! x
Here are our photos from our last event. Thanks to everyone who came along to listen and to all our wonderful speakers. Special thanks to Cathal Moran for capturing the night with these brilliant photos. Please feel free to tag yourselves and share. Join us for our next event on the 18th of September!
Check out this amazing blog by SWL regular Liz Frost, who read her powerful piece 'Enough' about the situation in South Africa at our last event:
https://aredheadrambleson.com/2019/09/04/enough/?fbclid=IwAR1h6YNPoRscO4eoRsCgX0ue7e6FIVJ8NCoLXzUvqFJVTLp2BwiJGtuTymM
https://aredheadrambleson.com/2019/09/04/enough/?fbclid=IwAR1h6YNPoRscO4eoRsCgX0ue7e6FIVJ8NCoLXzUvqFJVTLp2BwiJGtuTymM
Enough
On Monday night I checked on some news stories and what I saw shocked me. While it feels like everything is about to come tumbling down around us politically here in the UK, a sustained state of tu…
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Spoken Word | Apples and Snakes | Blackbox | For the Poets by PJ
#SpokenWord #ApplesandSnakes #slam PJ AKA The Repeat Beat Poet is a London based poet and MC who fuses stream-of-consciousness writing and Hip Hop culture to...
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Here are our photos from our last event. Thanks to everyone who came along to listen and to all our wonderful speakers. Special thanks to Cathal Moran for capturing the night with these brilliant photos. Please feel free to tag yourselves and share. Join us for our next event on the 4th of September!
Check out the brilliant first episode of Dead Darlings Podcast, a new podcast brought to you by the wonderful SWL regulars Rebecca Cooney, Hannah Chutzpah and Laurie Eaves, with the excellent poet Tyrone Lewis as their guest:
Episode 1: Tyrone Lewis
Episode 1 features an interview with Tyrone Lewis, a discussion of The Other Woman by Sophia Blackwell and Leanne Shorley live at Boomerang Club
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