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Live poetry and spoken word, with two feature guests and an open mic slam.MISS YANKEY: British-Ghanaian poet and multidisciplinary artist. Spanning poetry, music, theatre, television and radio, her practice explores identity, culture and the spaces between disciplines. Rooted in storytelling and driven by experimentation,
she challenges conventions and pushes the boundaries of how stories are told.
MARK MR 'T' THOMPSON: Poet, performer and educator, born and bred in South London of Anglo-Jamaican heritage, Mark 'Mr T' Thompson released his first book of poems in 2009, and his second with Burning Eye in 2022. He has featured widely from the London Paralympics to the Criterion Theatre, Radio 4 to BBC London News.
OPEN MIC SLAM: 3.5 minutes on the mic, open to any poet of any style, judged by randomly selected members of the audience. Winner gets a 10 min slot at the next event and the place in the end-of-season slam final! Sign up here for your place in the open mic slam https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/6V1pwE1jCJnMkzjCDdWTS+xYlPkoVsZYXLoBXwUK2xo/
Doors, DJ and slam sign up from 7:30pm, show starts 8pm
Pay what you feel on a choice of 3 different prices.
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Queen of Hoxton, 1 Curtain Road, EC2A 3JX London, United Kingdom, 1 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3JX, United Kingdom
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