UK PERFORMANCE POETRY SLAM
Midlands Heat
in partnership with Apples & Snakes BBC Radio 4 is organising a UK and Northern Ireland Performance Poetry Slam between 18 of the top UK performance poets representing the nine BBC regions in a verse-spilling wit-spitting live knockout poetry competition.
Each region will choose two performance poets to represent them by pitting proven local slam winners against each other in a series of high-octane verbal battles guaranteed to sort the poetic wheat from the prosaic chaff.
In Birmingham, on Thursday 2 July, at The REP, the Midlands poets get their chance for glory. The "Midlands Heat" qualifying slam gives you the opportunity to select the two champions of the spoken word in the Midlands that you think should take on representatives from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England and London.
The two inter-regional semi-finals will be broadcast on Radio 4 on Thursday 24th Sept at 11.00pm and Thurs 1st Oct at 11.00pm. The Grand Final will be broadcast on Thurs 8th Oct at 11.00pm. The UK Performance Poetry Slam forms part of the BBC's multi-platform poetry series running from May to October 2009.
Compere: Giovanni "Spoz" Esposito
Line-up:
Chris Vickers
George "Poshboy" Hardwick
Emma Purshouse
Steve Rooney
Brenda Read-Brown
Simon Lee
Mark Neil
Bohdan Piaceski
Cherrie "Riddlewoman" Gillings
Sean "Evoke" Welch
Mohammed "DubLe" Shariff
Michelle "Mother" Hubbard
Rob Gee
Jude Simpson
Ash Dickinson
WHEN: Thursday 2nd July, 7.45pm
WHERE: Birmingham Rep, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EP
TICKETS: £4
BOOKINGS: 0121 245 2000
