Edinburgh’s International Women’s Day All-Female Slam
06/03/2012 @ The Banshee Labyrinth - reviewed by Harry Giles - A couple of days ago we reviewed the International Women’s Day event Poetry in the Parlour, now continuing this theme Harry Giles reviews...
View ArticleHammer and Tongue National Slam Final: The Team Battles! 31.03.12
@ Wilton’s Music Hall - by Dana Bubulj and Koel Mukherjee - Event: Taking the six different chapters of H&T from across the country and pitting them against each other to see which location has...
View ArticleHammer and Tongue National Slam Final: The Individuals 31.03.12
@ Wilton’s Music Hall - by Dana Bubulj - Part two of the Hammer and Tongue Final: this review concentrates on the Individual slam at the beautiful Wilton’s Music Hall. 18 Poets that had qualified...
View ArticleReview: Hammer & Tongue Oxford Slam Final 12/06/2012
- reviewed by Neil Anderson - Sabotage recently previewed the Hammer & Tongue Oxford final, and to follow up from that, Neil Anderson reviews the final itself! Oxford’s Skylight Crisis cafe was...
View ArticleReview: ‘Everything Speaks in its Own Way’ by Kate Tempest
- reviewed by Dan Holloway - One of the most beautiful things I own Kate Tempest’s first full-length book, published through her own imprint Zingaro, is printed on thick, acid-free paper that nestles...
View ArticlePoetry Olympics: Word Games 17/07/12
- Reviewed by Dana Bubulj - @ Theatre Delicatessen It was rather difficult to miss the looming [Redacted] over London this season. What better way to respond to this is by appropriating it for poetry?...
View ArticleReview: Hammer & Tongue Brighton, 04/10/12
- reviewed by Michaela Ridgway - @ Brighton’s Komedia “Poets are liars” – Plato (via James Burt) Standing in the lengthening queue outside Brighton’s Komedia, I’m asked by the couple behind me if this...
View ArticleReview: Wantage Poetry Slam – Wantage Betjeman Poetry Festival 28/10/12
- reviewed by James Webster and special guest reviewer Lucy Ayrton - @ Shush The Event Last Sunday, I attended the Wantage Slam was part of the wider Wantage (not just) Betjeman Poetry Festival, which...
View ArticleReview: Hammer & Tongue Oxford 13/11/12
- reviewed by James Webster - Hammer & Tongue’s new season continues … Have I mentioned that I really like Hammer & Tongue? I’m sure I have. I must’ve done. Anyway, if I haven’t (or you haven’t...
View ArticleReview: Hammer & Tongue Camden Slam Final 14/10/13
- reviewed by Irina Jauhiainen - As you may know, Hammer & Tongue is a national network of poetry slams that is committed to launching the careers of new poets. Poets compete in a series of...
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