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 The Great Northern Slam

Slammers Wanted

In November Radikal Words is running a poetry slam. Sixteen poets will enter the ring, the poets will perform in pairs and the audience will vote on who goes and who stays.

Only one will be the winner and carry away the fantastic prize of £40.00 and the prestigious title of Bare Knuckle Poetry Slam Champion 2015.

It’s slam poetry but not as we know it, it will be brutal, there may be blood, the ring will be littered with the verbs and adjectives of the fallen but from the sweat and spit will emerge one winner to take the prize and the title. Are you big enough to take part? Do you have four poems of less than three minutes in length?

It will be a night of fun and noise and the chance for one person to be  Bare Knuckle Poetry Slam Champion 2015.

email radikalwords@gmail.com or message on Facebook Radikal Words to enter

Bare Knuckle Poetry Slam 2015

Northern Stage

Newcastle

Thursday 5th November

Preview: Great Northern Slam at Newcastle Northern Stage

Great Northern Slam

Newcastle Northern Stage

Wednesday 8th April

The Great North Slam comes to Northern Stage. It's performance poetry meets XFactor. Ten of the best slam poets in the North have 3 minutes each to wow the audience with words and delivery and then judges randomly selected from the audience vote and in each round we eliminate poets until only two are left to battle it out for the prize, pride and the glory of becoming Great Northern Slam Champion and the BIG MONEY Prize of £50.00.

Would you like to take part in the Great Northern Slam? Email jeffprice@radikalwords.com for more info.

There will also be a special guest  stand up poet Spoz (AKA Giovanni Esposito).  He's a festival favourite and has headlined at Glastonbury, Shambala, Cheltenham Literature festival and Ledbury Poetry Festival. Spoz has also been Birmingham's Poet Laureate.

In addition Zach Lewis was one of the winners of SLAMalgamate and the Radikal Words team are thrilled he is going to do a guest spot at the Slam. Zack has been writing poems for a decade and saying them at people since 2011.He has performed at the Nottingham Playhouse, The Olympic Park and the Sage Gateshead and has been praised for his ‘dramatic powers of urban storytelling.’ He was one of the BBC’s New Voices in 2014.

Tickets:

Northern Stage Wednesday 8th April  7.30

Tickets £5

http://www.northernstage.co.uk/whats-on/great-north-slam

Box Office: 0191 230 5151