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Poetry Café

Contains 1 collection item, 4 performances, 5 in total. Currently showing 5 in total.

The Poetry Society's basement space in Betterton Street. Home of the long-running open mic Poetry Unplugged.

  • A Taste of Whine Gums

    Performance: A Taste of Whine Gums

    18 July 2003 at 
    Poetry Café (5)
    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 ...
  • Spaghetti Junction

    Performance: Spaghetti Junction

    7 October 2004 at 
    Poetry Café (5)
  • Video recording of Spaghetti Junction

    Collection item: Video recording of Spaghetti Junction

    7 October 2004
    Mini-DV tape of Spaghetti Junction show at Poetry Café.
  • Temptation (Perf 7/14)

    Performance: Temptation (Perf 7/14)

    3 October 2005 at 
    Poetry Café (5)
  • Windrush Songs

    Performance: Windrush Songs

    28 June 2007 at 
    Poetry Café (5)
    A partnership with the Poetry Society, who were launching James Berry’s book Windrush Songs. A&S programmed the youthful support. Upstairs at the Poetry Café, rather than in the basement.
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