'Drum solo for dementia' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Using just his voice and a Roland TD-4KP electronic drumkit, award-winning poet Antosh Wojcik explores the effects of dementia on speech, memory and family in his debut work for theatre, How to Keep Time.
Subtitled A Drum Solo for Dementia, the 60-minute show is a mesmeric display of drumming and spoken word in which poems become beats and beats become glitches in time. Reading-born Antosh, 26,...
29th May 2018
Sophia Walker wins BBC Poetry Slam Final
The tent was filled to bursting on Saturday (17 August) for the final of the BBC’s annual poetry slam, which runs over a week at the Edinburgh Fringe. Competitors Rachel Amey, Sophia Walker, Rachel McCrum and Colin McGuire were welcomed by enthusiastic host Young Dawkins, and judges Fay Roberts,...
25th August 2013
Rachel McCrum edges it in BBC slam heat at Edinburgh
Rachel McCrum pipped Scotland’s makar, Liz Lochhead, by half a point to win the second heat of the BBC poetry slam in Edinburgh on Tuesday night, and a place in Saturday’s final. McCrum won with...
15th August 2013
