Review: Omeros, Sam Wannamaker Playhouse
In the flickering candlelight of the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse, Derek Walcott's epic poem is brought to mesmerising life. Masterful performances from Jospeh Marc...
Poetry
Guest blog: More Good Now – A Working Manifesto for Artist-Producers
I’m an artist who also works as a producer. I set up and still help run the spoken word organisation Inky Fingers, and I co-direct the live art series ANATO...
Feature: SLAMbassadors – write from the soul
Slambassadors winner Ollie O'Neill. (c) Poetry Society Over a coffee in the basement of the Poetry Café in Covent Garden, Joelle Taylor gives me the low dow...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: L.O.V.E.
(2/5 stars) For a show almost exclusively about sex and violence, L.O.V.E. manages to be surprisingly dull. It's extremely well-choreographed, and the physical...
Mayfest review: Brand New Ancients
Kate Tempest is blazingly good. Everyone's been telling me this for ages, and she won the Ted Hughes Award in March, but to see her take the stage and do he...
Review: Tongue Fu
A mish-mash of jazz, spoken word, freestyling and stories, Tongue Fu brings together people who love words with people who love music and lets them riff. Th...