Thanks to Cinders McLeod for finding this flyer in the Clea & McLeod archive.
Annual partnership event with Alternative Arts.
An earlier version of the flyer named Levi Tafari instead of Mark Miwurdz.
A decade is a very, very long time in performance poetry, so this was a well-earned celebration. However, one despatch to Time Out’s letters page (24 Sep) found the show to be ‘a sickened, weakened thing’, thanks to ‘pollution by PCAs (politically correct attitudes)’. Proof that you can’t please all ...
Whine Gums was a BBC3 television programme that aimed to ‘reinvent poetry for the small screen’. Over the course of eight episodes, it featured ‘over 20 poets plucked from the best of British poetry in a variety of locations’ and was produced by Henry Normal & Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow ...