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WATCH: John Cooper Clarke Performs 'Hire Car'

WATCH: John Cooper Clarke Performs 'Hire Car'

Sam Parker  31.05.2012
It's been a big week for John Cooper Clarke. After a fantastic interview with the Guardian, the punk poet from Salford starred in BBC...
Spoken Word Poet James Bunting Performs 'Conkers'

Spoken Word Poet James Bunting Performs 'Conkers'

Sam Parker  23.05.2012
James Bunting co-runs the Bristol faction of poetry slam promoters Hammer & Tongue. "I started performing poetry when I was 18 after...
WATCH: Rapper Takes On Illiterate Internet Trolls

WATCH: Rapper Takes On Illiterate Internet Trolls

Becky Brewis  18.05.2012
Last December Mac Lethal went viral on YouTube with a video of him rapping a pancake recipe at breakneck speed over the beat of Look At...
Getting Involved With Museums at Night This Weekend

Getting Involved With Museums at Night This Weekend

18.05.2012
Museums at Night is the annual after-hours festival of culture and heritage, which explodes into life each year on the weekend nearest...
My Lovelorn Love Letter for Mississippi Isabel

My Lovelorn Love Letter for Mississippi Isabel

11.05.2012
My name is King Charles and last week I released my debut album called LoveBlood. On LoveBlood, there are three songs dedicated to a lady...
WATCH: Slam Poet National Champion Adam Kammerling

WATCH: Slam Poet National Champion Adam Kammerling

Sam Parker  11.05.2012
Adam Kammerling is the 2012 Hammer and Tongue National Slam Poet Championship. “I was originally drawn to spoken word by the freedom...
A (Song)Book Of Nonsense For Edward Lear's 200th Birthday

A (Song)Book Of Nonsense For Edward Lear's 200th Birthday

Sam Parker  11.05.2012
Happy birthday Edward Lear! You'll be pleased to know that, 200 years after you were born, your nonsense poems and limericks are still...

The Footage

10.05.2012
With the imminent release of The Dictator, Baron Cohen's despot comedy this new blog post is a new poem, begun on a flight to Khartoum...

The Rapprochement Between Pop Music and High Culture

9.05.2012
"Pop and thought don't go together," a BBC controller once said, resisting the introduction of pop music to his schedules. That battle...

Review: Luke Wright's Cynical Ballads

4.05.2012
'We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us': John Keats' self-assured proclamation is nakedly emblazoned across two large projection...

Writing a Poem Every Day

2.05.2012
Runners have marathons, trekkers have Kilimanjaro or the Himalayas, and poets? Poets have NaPoWriMo, otherwise known as National Poetry...
Why Critics Aren't Everything and Why Writing Is

Why Critics Aren't Everything and Why Writing Is

2.05.2012
I have been a critic for much longer than I have been a poet. Being a writer is tough. In a world where everyone who owns a Macbook and...
The Rhyme Lord

The Rhyme Lord

27.04.2012
Doctor Who star Matt Smith is going from time lord to rhyme lord - by introducing poetry to a new generation. The actor is to narrate...

Hackney - Acquired for Development

26.04.2012
In a borough as diverse as Hackney, you will never capture the area in its entirety, and this was never our intention. What the books is,...
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