Monthly Archives: May 2016

UK Slam Champion Guests at SpokenWord May 23rd ! Monday’s Theme: Labels and Misconceptions

Rachel (RayNwoks) Nwokoro, the current UK SLAM! Champion, is a young black female poet born and bred in London. She has been performing spoken word poetry for just a year and a half at different venues in the UK and … Continue reading

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Open Secret, tonight, “Poetry is the passionate pursuit of the real.” (-Czeslaw Milosz) featuring Brandon Williamson!

Open Secret this Wednesday features Brandon Williamson. Also a mini-set from Miguel Justice. . .Theme – “Poetry is the passionate pursuit of the real.” 8:30pm sign-up, 9pm show, at Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 75005, Paris. Metro … Continue reading

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Monday May 16th, SpokenWord presents Helen O’Keeffe and Antony Apostolov in ‘Holey Tuscany’

Holey Tuscany is a brief maritime tragedy about mammalian existential angst, the trials of conjoined siblingship, and ecumenical questions regarding uncomfortable rocks. It was first performed in March 2016 at The Loft Sessions, coordinated by Peter Deaves. Helen Cusack O’Keeffe … Continue reading

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Trudie Shannon is our guest poet Monday 9th May

(Theme – Mother Earth) I’m Guernsey born and bred, a true islander. I have a strong affinity with and a great love and respect for the sea in all its moods and colours though the sea of the inner world is … Continue reading

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April, May, SpokenWord 1, 2, 3 and 4. Through the lens of Sabine Dundure.

April has gone, spring is lost, winter is not dead. These pictures of Sabine Dundure portray the dark light of a basement, some velvet curtains and lots of spokenwanderers who gather there one Monday after another. A birthday song, some … Continue reading

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