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Brum Radio Poets Showcase

This event on 9th November 2017 at 19:00 has past.

Contact: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brum-radio-poets-showcase-tickets-37807274576

Brum Radio Poets presents a poetry showcase in association with the Verve Poetry Festival and Waterstones, Birmingham.
This will be a live recording of the Brum Radio Poets show, to be broadcast at the end of November and features 4 of the most exciting poets currently performing in the UK and the Midlands. The showcase brings together a nationally renowned poet, an established regional performer and two talented poets from Birmingham.
This is the first of what will be a quarterly showcase event for Brum Radio Poets, so if you love performance poetry and want to see some of the very best that Birmingham has to offer, then join us at Waterstones on Thursday 9th November.
Solomon OB is the 2016 Hammer & Tongue National Slam champion, a musician, Emcee, and spoken word artist who delivers passionate and engaging performances, challenging the status quo whilst pushing his own boundaries. A recent speaker at TEDx, Solomon has also featured on BBC Radio 1Xtra, Radio 5Live as well as The Guardian online.
Samantha Roden is a poet and academic whose work has featured in a number of journals and magazines. Her recent chapbook, Catch Ourselves in Glass was published by Original Plus, and other publications include Roth Through the Lens of Kepesh (HEB, 2016), a work of literary criticism.
She was named one of The Best New British and Irish Poets of 2017 by Luke Kennard and Eyewear publishing.
“Samantha Roden’s work is shot through with the longing and despair of the everyday and the everynight, but they take you further than a thousand over-reaches for profundity. They speak in a refreshingly direct, restoratively honest voice which arrested me from start to finish. These poems retain a sense of hope and generosity of spirit in spite of all the casual brutality they encounter; a wit and intelligence accessed via careful sensory observation which transfigures the permanent markers, the third-hand buggy, the therapist’s chair. Poems which know when to look away, and when to leave the door open.” - Luke Kennard, 2017
"Samantha Roden is a raw, rare and original voice. She has the violent honesty of Bukowski, the tenderness of Simon Armitage and the black humour of Tony Harrison." - Tim Lott
"Sam Roden reads like a Brum Bukowski mired in the Midlands, full of soot and turmoil and the blackest of humours. I hang onto her every published word." - Niall Griffiths
Sean Colletti was born and raised in California before relocating to the UK. He did his BA in English with Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham, his MA in Creative Writing: Prose at the University of East Anglia and has returned to Birmingham, where he is finishing his PhD. He has featured at spoken word events in the Midlands and elsewhere in the UK and has recently competed as part of the University of Birmingham’s slam team at the American collegiate slam competition, CUPSI, and UniSlam in the UK, where the team finished in second place. He is currently the host of Grizzly Pear, a regular spoken word night in Selly Oak, Birmingham.
Lexia Tomlinson is an actress, poet and spoken word artist. She has spent the last five years honing her skills as a poet and performer. She loves writing about the personal and socio-political issues in life; her main ethos is “the social is political and the political is social but everything is personal”. She wants people to think about the big and small stuff and in doing so remember that their stories matter too and we’re never powerless to change our circumstances and world.

Samantha Roden will also be running a workshop at Waterstones prior to the event and anyone attending the workshop will get free access to the live evening showcase. Sam's workshop will focus on Poetic Eroticism: Sex in Contemporary Poetry and will be a two hour workshop featuring an exploration of erotic poetry and how sex is represented in contemporary poetry, together with a writing exercise entitled Tackling Taboo. The workshop will start at 4:00pm and finish around 6:00pm. The cost of the workshop will be £20.

Tickets for the showcase and the workshop can be booked through this site or paid for on the door, although we recommend booking the tickets in advance to avoid disappointment, especially for the workshop as places are limited.
There may be adult language and adult themes espressed in the showcase, so it is up to your discretion if booking tickets for a minor.

Price: £5.00

Time: 7:00pm (Starts 19:30 for 2 hrs)

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Waterstones Birmingham

24-26 High Street, Birmingham,, Birmingham, B4 7SL, GB

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