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Spoken Word Playlist #4: ‘Mountain’ by Jet Sweeney

August 28, 2020August 31, 2020 Charley performance art, Performance Poet, performance poetry, poetry, Spoken Word

– Written by Hannah Ledlie – I suspect Jet Sweeney’s ‘Mountain’ might be a marmite poem. To test this theory

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Spoken Word Playlist #3: How are poets adapting to social distancing?

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 Charley lockdown poetry, Performance, performance poetry, poetry, poetry events, Spoken Word

Anyone seeking to facilitate poetry in the digital world of lockdown must start from a place of comparison and introspection. What are the essential elements of a ‘normal’ poetry event?

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LIVEwire at the Verve Poetry Festival (February 22, 2020)

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 Charley Festival, Live Literature, live poetry, poetry, Spoken Word, Verve Poetry Festival

Late last year, UK spoken word record label Nymphs & Thugs announced their first national tour. Their goal was to bring ‘LIVEwire’ to eight different venues across the country.

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Utopia, Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 6th November

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Charley interactive, interactive literature, Performance, performance art

Utopia – a single-hander written and performed by multi-disciplinary artist and creative producer Amahra Spence – blurred the barriers between life and art.

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New Feature! Regular Night Spotlight: Stirchley Speaks

October 8, 2019October 9, 2019 Charley Birmingham, live poetry, Open Mic, performance poetry, poetry, poetry night, poetry reading, Spoken Word

An introduction from our West Midlands Spoken Word Editor, Hannah Ledlie: “Regular spoken word nights are the lifeblood of the

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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Collaborative Work

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 Charley

It’s always wonderful when different artists and creators can come together to shape something new. This is why Sabotage loves

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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Regular Spoken Word Night

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 Charley

Up and down the country there are weekly and monthly word events that mean great things to the people who

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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Spoken Word Performer

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 Charley

All over the world at any given moment there are spoken word performers wowing audiences. After the first round of

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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Spoken Word Show

May 9, 2019May 10, 2019 Charley

The Best Spoken Word Show is another staple element of the Saboteur Awards and this year there have been so

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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Literary Festival

May 8, 2019May 10, 2019 Charley

It’s the first year that the Saboteur Awards Festival has been able to include a literary festival category, and we’re