Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Spoken Word Performer
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
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 Poetry Pamphlet
One of the most popular categories in the Saboteur Awards is the race for Best Poetry Pamphlet. Following the first
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Food of the Gods by Em Dehaney
– Reviewed by Rhys Knapman – Food of the Gods is a single author collection of seven horror stories and a
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Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity by Ella Frears
-Reviewed by Phoebe Walker- Ella Frears’ debut pamphlet, one of the first in Goldsmiths Press’ ‘Shorts’ series, opens with a
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Primers: Volume Two Ben Bransfield, Cynthia Miller, Marvin Thompson
-Reviewed by Pam Thompson- The Primers scheme provides an important platform for emerging poets who are seeking to develop their
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Funkenteleky Verve Special (The Old Rep, Birmingham, 17 Feb 2019)
Reviewed by Jonah Corren ‘Funken.. what? Funkenwha? Is it a typo? Funfksjsdksrd?! Seriously? That’s not a word. Funke..Fun…ke? Funkenteleky!’ On
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Time Zone by Dominic Hale
-Reviewed by Alice Tarbuck- Dominic Hale’s new pamphlet from Spam Press begins with an epigraph from Jack Spicer: ‘A poet
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UniSlam Grand Finals (The Old Rep, Birmingham, 3 Feb 2019)
Reviewed by Tyrone Lewis What an event UniSlam is! For those who don’t know, UniSlam is an annual team poetry
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Hit the Ode x UniSlam Party (The Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome, 1 Feb 2019)
reviewed by Hannah Ledlie Hit the Ode was launched a decade ago in The Victoria, a popular pub in Birmingham city
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