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Festival Spoken Word

Crap Time Lord by Richard Tyrone Jones

July 31, 2014August 1, 2014 websterpoet Crap Time Lord, Edinburgh Fringe, PBH Free Fringe, Richard Tyrone Jones, RTJ, Spoken Word, Utter

-Reviewed by James Webster– Those of us at the Utter 10th Anniversary Mini-Fringe back in April were treated to a

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Well Versed – Stoke Newington Literary Festival, June 7th and 8th 2014

July 4, 2014July 13, 2014 websterpoet Amy Acre, Bobby Parker, Chimene Suleyman, Emma Jones, Hannah Lowe, Helen Mort, Jody Porter, Kayo Chingonyi, Lucy Parsons, Michelle Madsen, Morning Star, Niall O'Sullivan, Phill Jupitus, Porky the Poet, Salena Godden, Sam Berkson, Simon Munnery, Steve Pottinger, Stoke Newington Literary Fetival, The Captain of the Rant, Tim Wells, Well Versed

– reviewed by Lucy Parsons – The poetry of the people – an extravaganza of radical verse from the Morning

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Review: The Last Word Festival – The Roundhouse (16 Nov – 1st Dec)

December 5, 2013December 5, 2013 websterpoet A Tale from the Bedsit, Dan Cockrill, Lettie McKie, Paul Cree, Peter Heyhoe, Poetry Takeaway, Rayyan Khan, Run, Salander, Sean Mahoney, Sophie Rose, The Last Word Festival, The Roundhouse, Words in Progress, Zia Ahmed

– reviewed by Lettie McKie – (image courtesy of Stuart Leech) A hot-bed of thrilling spoken word … The Roundhouse

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Utter! Presents … Identity Mix-Up and We Are All Orange Ghosts

August 29, 2013October 22, 2013 Editor Dan Simpson, Edinburgh Fringe, Keith Jarrett, Lettie McKie, performance poetry, Spoken Word, Utter! Presents ... Identity Mix-Up, We Are All Orange Ghosts

– reviewed by Lettie McKie – As poetry is, like much writing, an essentially solo activity it is not surprising

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Around the World in Eight Mistakes by Sophia Walker

August 29, 2013 Editor Around the World in Eight Mistakes, BBC Poetry Slam, Edinburgh Fringe, Lucy Ayrton, Review, Sophia Walker

– reviewed by Lucy Ayrton – Around the World in Eight Mistakes is a powerhouse of a spoken word show

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Scroobius Pip – Words

August 20, 2013 Editor Edinburgh Fringe, Hip-Hop, Lucy Ayrton, performance poetry, Pleasance Dome, Rap, Review, Scroobius Pip, Words

– reviewed by Lucy Ayrton – (Lucy is one of the intrepid Sabotage reviewers covering the Edinburgh Fringe this year,

Festival Seasonal/End of year Spoken Word

Top Spoken Word Moments of 2012

February 3, 2013 Editor Adam Kammerling, Anna Le, Ben Mellor, Dirty Great Love Story, Dizraeli, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Women's Day All Female Slam, Hammer & Tongue, James Webster, Kate Tempest, Katie Bonna, Lucy Ayrton, Nth Entities, Once Upon a Time (in Space), Page Match 2, performance poetry, Phil Jupitus, Phil Manzanera, Richard Marsh, Spoken Word, Stoke Newington Literary festival, Superbard, The Mechanisms, Wasted

– listed by James Webster – As the year is (fairly) recently ended and a new one begun, it seems

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Alderburgh Poetry Festival 2-4 November 2012

November 21, 2012 Editor Alan Rickman, Alderburgh Poetry Festival, Andrea Porter, Anthony Thwaite, Christopher Reid, David Lodge, David Wheatley, Doctors Without Borders, Fady Joudah, Fenton Aldeburgh prize for best first collection, Ghassan Zaqtan, Greg Wise, Jackie Kay, John Stammers, Judi Sutherland, Julia Copus, Leland Bardwell, Nancy Gaffield, Naomi Jaffa, Olivia McCannon, Poetry Paper, Poetry Parnassus, Sam Willetts, Snape Maltings, Strictly Come Dancing, TLS, Tom Sharpe

-Reviewed by Judi Sutherland– Aldeburgh – huddles of poetry lovers, but not very festive? Arriving in this quiet Suffolk town

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Review: Wantage Poetry Slam – Wantage Betjeman Poetry Festival 28/10/12

November 6, 2012 Editor Anna Saunders, Brenda Read Brown, Dan Holloway, Graham Eccles, Guy Williams, Helen Harvey, James Dolton, James Webster, Joel Denno, Kieran King, Lucy Ayrton, Nick Short, Shush, slam, Spoken Word, Tina Sederholm, Wantage, Wantage Not Just Betjeman Literary Festival

– reviewed by James Webster and special guest reviewer Lucy Ayrton – @ Shush The Event Last Sunday, I attended

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The Long and the Short of It – Richard Purnell and Gary from Leeds

September 5, 2012 Editor Edinburgh Fringe, Gary from Leeds, performance poetry, Richard Purnell, Spoken Word, The Long and the Short of It

– reviewed by Anna Hobson – Anna Hobson kindly reviews one of the Spoken Word shows from the Edinburgh Fringe