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Poetry and Words ...
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Found in the Green Futures Field, the Poetry & Words Tent sets poetry in motion in ways you never thought possible. This year, Glaswegians, Mancunians, poets from the big smoke, poets from the shadow of the Tor, poets flying in from Texas and Arizona, a poet in a cassock and poets who want to bare their all�
The Poetry Tent brings out the poet in YOU too! And kids, old and young, are encouraged this year to stick their words, ideas and emotions together and then let the world know about it. Bring your mum, your dad, your auntie, but most of all bring your poems ! Poetry workshops for kids happen each morning, and there is a PoeTree sculpture to be added to with leaves as poems as leaves. There is space in the tent for hundreds of kids, so come along, pick up that mic. and wow the audience with your words - we dare you.
The explosive world of the spoken word is never more exciting and unpredictable than in Sunday's Poetry Slam, hosted this year by '99 winner Birdman, with Marcus Moore (Cheltenham Slam), which offers a chance for festival poets to get their poetry heard. In a truly democratic fashion, the audience decides the winner - could it be you? Or bring your poems along to the open mic. sessions open to all on Friday and Sunday.
Women's voices ring out during Women's Time on Saturday - an event which will be partly sign language interpreted and which includes the satirical and celebratory work of Patience Agbabi, who will be performing poems from her latest collection, 'Transformatrix'.
Profiles of some artists appear below the full line-up :
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FRIDAY
9am Sacred/Devotional Chanting with Pat Sutton
9.40 Kids' open mic. With Fiona Hamilton and Scorpio the Nemesis. Don't be shy - bring your poem to perform. Any age up to teenage welcome.
10.20 Bernadette Cremin
10.35 Wyton Wisdom
10.55 Monologue Joe & Sheila Mellor
11.20 Hattie
11.40 Rohini
12.05pm Helen Thomas
12.25 Luigi Coppola
12.40 The Wonderful World of Yvo Luna
1.0 Patience Agbabi
1.30 Ju & Christine
1.55 Exploring Gender with Pete & Brenda
2.25 Open mic. Bring a poem of your own to perform
2.50 Selima Saliva
3.05 Rev. Cassius Feathers
3.20 Gaia Holmes
3.35 Robert Knox, the Bohemian Rasberry
3.55 Jem Rolls
4.15 Avra
4.30 Words R Us: Top Shelf Librarians
4.55 Ali Wade
5.15 Dead Good Poets Society
5.40 Scorpio the Nemesis
7pm Marcus Moore
7.10 J. Words
7.30 Jazz Griot UK
7.50 PVT West
8.05 Marcus Moore
8.10 Judge, the People's Poet
8.20 Speechpainter's Beating Time Part I
8.35 Birdman
9.55 Steve Tasane
9.15 Beating Time Part II
9.25 Judge, the People's Poet
9.40 Devil's Dirty Disco
FRIDAY WORKSHOPS (In Workshop/Bookshop Tent)
9.30 WHO AM I? A kids' poetry/performing workshop with Muhammad Khalil (Jazz Griot UK)
9.30 Also for Kids: Come and put a leaf-poem of your own onto our PoeTree
SATURDAY
9am Goddess Chanting for Everyone
9.40 Kids open mic. With Jazz Griot UK - bring your friends, your mum & dad & auntie or come alone but bring your poems!
10.20 Avra
10.35 The Bohemian Rasberry
10.50 Dead Good Poets Society
11.15 Brendan Georgeson
11.30 Marcus Moore
11.45 Monologue Joe
12pm Women's Time! Sandra Barefoot will sign language interpret part of this event which will include: Gaia 10, Yvo Luna 15, Fnacalma 15, Christine 10, Fiona 5, PVT West 15, Words R Us: Top Shelf Librarians 20, Patience Agbabi 20, Hattie 10 Plus OPEN MIC. (Women - bring us your poems!)
2.30 Judge, the People's Poet
2.45 A Guest from the Farmacy
3.05 Stephen Roberts & John Dalton
3.35 Galactic Love Poets
3.55 Tallyessin
4.20 Fiona Hamilton
4.35 Helen Thomas
4.55 Jazz Griot UK
5.15 Birdman
5.30 Tim Gibbard
7pm Monologue Joe
7.15 Rev. Cassius Feathers
7.30 Wyton Wisdom
7.45 Scorpio the Nemesis
8.10 Selima Saliva
8.25 Monologue Joe
8.35 The Wonderful World of Yvo Luna
9.05 Jem Rolls
9.25 Devil's Dirty Disco
10.10 The Shield: A Pure Poetry Tale of Youth. Michael Parker
SATURDAY WORKSHOPS (In Workshop/Bookshop Tent)
9.30am For Kids: Rap & Fun with Scorpio the Nemesis
9.30.1 Also for Kids: Come and put a leaf-poem of your own onto our PoeTree
10.30 Myth-exploring with Michael Parker
SUNDAY
9am Buddhist Chanting for Everyone
9.40 Rev. Cassius Feathers
9.45 Toby Reynolds
10 Gaia Holmes
10.15 Ali Wade
10.30 Wyton Wisdom
10.45 Rev. Cassius Feathers
10.55 Open Mic. Bring a poem you know, to share.
11.20 Pete & Brenda Explore Gender
11.45 Speechpainter's Beating Time Part III
12pm THE SLAM! Your applause decides the winner
1.30 Birdman
1.45 Fnacalma
2.10 Avra
2.20 The Bohemian Rasberry
2.30 Selima Saliva
2.45 Hattie
3.0 Luigi Coppola
3.10 Galactic Love Poets
3.35 Steve Tasane
3.55 Judge
4.05 Jem Rolls
SUNDAY WORKSHOPS (IN Workshop/Bookshop Tent)
9.30 Kids/Voices Improvisation fun with Steve Tasane. Prepare a short group piece for performance in open mic. (11am. main tent)
10.30 Myth-exploring with Michael Parker
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The Devil's Dirty Disco
Manchester. Now. Or never. The most infamous nightclub in the world. Above, demolition trucks and property development sharks. Below, in the basement bowels, Suzy Nightingale. The original door bitch from heaven. And hell.
Incarnated as Suzy, "the devil's own concubine" (City Life Magazine), writer and performer Fiona Bowker tells it straight like it was and is. "Acid house veteran and northern clubland legend Fiona Bowker is the voice of the chemical generation" (Jockey Slut magazine). A dazzling 45-minute show on Friday and Saturday nights.
Helen Thomas
How a word can paint a thousand pictures. Succinct, pithy, witty, Helen Thomas peers through multicoloured spectacles at what happens in the blender, on the welsh dresser, when the earth moves. Guess the title of this one?
Insey wincey, mincey, twinsky, skinsky
Spider
Shortened his name
To Bob.
(Answer: Unblocking the Succinct)
Judge - The People's Poet
"new, fresh, accessible, thoughtful, amusing, surprising�poetry for people who don't like poetry"
Brimming with energy and determined to make you sit up, listen and be shaken in all your senses, Judge will change the way you think about poetry�.and everything else as well. His words have taken him round the world at the speed of light, and are featured on Motivation, the latest album by ambient music band Scary Puppy.
Scorpio the Nemesis
Rapper and human beatbox Scorpio the Nemesis has toured with the the east-west fusion band The Asian Equation and worked on a performance in London Transport buses which was filmed for the BBC and Channel 4. Here he continues his assault against the Underworld of Untruth with his virulent and intrepid libretto
Words R Us: Top Shelf Librarians
Hot on the trail of Glastonbury 1999 and their rude, lewd comedy act 'The Bride Who Shagged Me', the girls re-invent themselves as Gladys and Brenda, librarians who want to sell words old and new to a public whose brains have been anaesthetised by a surfeit of media. Storming through life and its frustrations, the girls present their own observations coupled with the likes of Blake and Wordsworth as you've never heard them before.
Patience Agbabi
From Hamburg to Jo'burg, Oslo to Soho, Patience Agbabi is known as a poet whose honesty, wit and intelligence packs a punch, draws a smile and warms your heart - all at once. Performing from Transformatrix, her long awaited new collection. Inspired by '90s poetry, '80s rap and '70s disco, she is satirical and celebratory.
Fnacalma
Razorblade-flavoured candyfloss served up by reluctant waitresses from Brighton. Passive aggression reflected through a seamless looking glass, with words spiked with arsenic.
Robert Knox
Dandily-dressed Glaswegian Robert Knox muses eloquently on the humorous happenings of his less salacious life.
Steve Tasane
Rhythmic, theatrical, irreverent, humorous, Steve Tasane comes fresh from performances with Atomic Lip, 'poetry's first pop group' and from the Battersea Dogs' Home where he is Poetry Places resident poet. Reviewing 'Bleeding Heart', his first poetry collection, Time Out commented: "His eloquently theatrical pieces demand to be read aloud."
The Reverend Cassius Feathers Of the Church of the International Hypocrite
aka John Hall, trash-obsessed malcontent and renaissance under-achiever, dons his cassock and wends his way south from the North West to provide a foul rant in no uncertain terms.
The Wonderful World of Yvo Luna
Illustrator and wordsmith Yvo Luna invites you into her surreal and wonderful world, where she confesses
Sid Vicious is my hero
but what would he think of me
if he knew I still play recorder
at the age of twenty three
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