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Poetry and Words Tent

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Friends, roamers, festivalgoers! Lend your ears and wend your way wordwards to the Poetry&Words Tent, a Glastonbury tradition heard first in a yurt in 1992, nurtured fifteen years in the Green Futures Field, where it now blossoms into a non-stop performance platform for all manner of mouthy poets, from the emerging & exciting to the esteemed & established.

 

Poets are travelling here from Ireland, Scotland and all countries in between for an oral extravaganza introduced this year by legendary Stroud printer-poet Dennis Gould, who long ago inspired & accompanied Poetry&Words' behind-the-scenes guru PVT West, wandering Worthy Farm's fields together as Riff Raff Poets, creating audiences here and there and everywhere.

 

Will Andy Craven Griffiths (Urbanian Quarter) win back his 2005 Slam Champion title?

Not since the 1995 Slam! has anyone won two years running. Come along and help decide the outcome.

 

Will you be able to resist the street theatre wiles of the Poetry Controllers on our frontage?

 

AMONG THOSE PERFORMING FOR YOUR AURAL DELIGHT ARE:

 

JIM CARRUTH

 

Based in: Renfrewshire.

 

The man who wanted to hug cows! Scotland's leading rural poet, an activist and farmer whose poems are "moving testaments to a fragile way of life".

 

DENNIS JUST DENNIS

 

Commissioned to cover the premiership, FA and World Cup for BBC radio since 2005; granted permission to perform a poetic political protest outside No. 10

''"The best football poet I have ever heard" - John Cooper Clarke

 

"Reminds me of The Scaffold" - David Plat (BBC 5 Live)

 

__http://myspace.com/dennisjustdennis__

 

EBELE

 

Based in: London

 

Earthy, quirky, surreal, playful Nigerian-brown Londoner who loves hugs, rainbows & mangoes that go "Oh", & in her 7th lifetime would like to be a dancer, a tree or a seahorse

 

CLAIRE FAUSET of CORPORATE WATCH

 

Based in: Leeds

 

Claire: radical supergirly, two parts fizz to one part fury, firing sharp inspiring poetry drawn from her life as an activist and sure to make you want to join her on the barricades

 

Corporate Watch's radical, ranty and irreverent new poetry anthology 'This Poem is Sponsored By..Poems in the Face of Corporate Power' described by George Monbiot as "dark, subversive, thrilling and transgressional poems".

 

__http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk__

 

 

 

AIME HANSEN

 

Based in: London

 

Calls herself "a theatrical poet", because she likes to use acting skills, story telling and characterisation to present her poetry. Different characters hide in her handbag. Originally from Estonia, which she describes as "a tiny country near Sweden, half-surrounded by the Baltic sea", adding "Perhaps this is why (she) also loves to write poetry about the sea as she finds that sea is one of the most mysterious and fascinating elements of nature"

 

"chases the mysteries of life and admires the marvels of the universe"

 

BOB HARDING-JONES

 

Comedian, Poet, Storyteller, Writer who has entertained villages countrywide with his one-man show "Laughter in the Village"

 

"excels with hilarious town and country everyday-life observations ... crackles with wit, sparkles with humour and guarantees to lift your spirits"

 

__http://www.bobharding-jones.co.uk__

 

OZ HARDWICK

 

Based in: York

 

Writer, photographer and occasional musician

 

"A strong and articulate voice with compassion and humour ... (his) ear for rhythm is consistently persuasive" - Envoi

 

"poems which beautifully capture life's little moments" - The Talk

 

__http://www.ozhardwick.co.uk__

 

THE HONEY TONGUES

 

Based in : Devon

 

Lucy Lepchani & Mim Darlington are two rising, prize-wining poets who invite you to let languid language lull you into lush landscapes and hear rhymes to raise or rip your heart. Lucy's Ballad of Chelsea Flower Show won first prize in that event's poetry competition in 2005

 

"Wonderful - as good as Kipling!" - Alan Titchmarsh, celebrity gardener, author and TV presenter

 

"sensual, exciting performers" - Caroline Wilson, chair of Moor Poets, Devon community poetry network

 

"life-affirming, vibrant poetry" - Matt Harvey, poet and broadcaster

 

ELVIS McGONAGALL - “one man and his doggerel”

 

Based: near Dundee

 

Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker, Elvis McGonagall is the sole resident of The Graceland Caravan Park somewhere near Dundee where he scribbles verse whilst drinking malt whisky, listening to Johnny Cash and throwing heavy objects at his portable telly. Elvis is the 2006 World Slam Champion, the compere of the notorious Blue Suede Sporran Club and one of the poets occasionally in residence on BBC Radio 4’s “Saturday Live”.

 

Elvis is the Festival’s first Website Poet in Residence. He will be giving progress reports and treating us to some of his poems composed on site.

“If poetry is the new rock ‘n roll then Elvis….is Elvis” - Steve Larkin, Hammer & Tongue

 

MILBURGA

 

__http://www.milburga.co.uk__

 

MILO

 

Based in: Bristol

 

Black English actor and writer - of short stories, speeches and screenplays as well as poems - with a personal, unorthodox, visual style and direct postmodern appeal. Frequently invited in to BBC Radio Bristol to perform his latest ideas, he's a regular slam poetry performer, and the Empire & Commonwealth Museum's current Breaking the Chains exhibition features a film of his poem 'Me Da Ya'.

 

MARTY MULLIGAN

 

Based in: Mullingar

 

One of Ireland's most high-profile and highly-rated poets, and an award-winning slam performer

 

"show stopper, jaw dropper, funny fecker, head wrecker, inspiration bringer, straight-talking word slinger"

 

with CHELLEY McCLEAR

a founder member and secretary of the Belfast poets and instigator of "Love Poetry Hate Reason"

 

 

PJ (POETRY JACK)

 

Based in: Bristol

 

Takes a gritty & lyrical, witty & satirical look at the realities of dyke life

 

SHAGUFTA K. IQBAL

 

Based in: Bristol

 

She's a fluent speaker of Punjabi & Urdu, a Bath Uni graduate English & Creative Studies in English, working as

a Research Assistant for live performance organisation Poeticize. Last year she was not only Poet in Residence for Asian Arts Agency, Poetry Can and City Academy, but also organiser of the Lyrical Miracles arts showcase.

 

HELEN SHAY

 

Based in: Yorkshire

 

Northern soul meets Yorkshire grit in this "pint sized poet with a good head". Solicitor, poet and dramatist, legal eagle turned poetry hawk ... comic twists and moving poetry with a raunchy kick.

 

"brings a pungent scent of ancient magic to the telling moments of ordinary life" - Joolz Denby

 

TALKING TEKLA THE NARRATA

 

Based in: Trowbridge, Wiltshire

 

"Talking Tekla the Narrata

The performing story-teller

Want a story to be told

Send for Talking Tekla

Words tender and bold

Here comes the Narrata

Words of Pleasure

Talking Tekla"

 

TEAM VAGINA with Eve Ensler's award-winning play The Vagina Monologues

 

Let Bristol's Team Vagina take you on a bold, hilarious and deeply moving journey into the world of female sexuality. Janie Digby writes: "We are a tight-knit and devoted group who approach life and art with a smile and wild enthusiasm!"

__http://www.vday.org__

 

__http://www.myspace.com/vdaybristol__

 

THICK RICHARD

 

As seen at The Big Chill 2005, The Latitude Festival 2006, and The Wicker Man Festival 2005-06, Matthew Duffy & Bob Moyler were last on stage at Glastonbury in 2004, going on to win a 4-star Scotsman review at Edinburgh, to be the first poets to perform at the Reading Festival in 2006, and to be heard on national radio.

 

THE URBANIAN QUARTER

 

The self-proclaimed A Team of performance poetry, a quartet formed at Glastonbury's Poetry&Words Tent in 2005.

 

Andy Craven-Griffiths

Current Glastonbury Slam champion

__http://www.andycraven-griffiths.com__

 

Polar Bear

"Birmingham's own lyrical arctic carnivore ... rhymical tales from a no-nonsense perspective"

__http://www.polarbearpoet.com__

 

Inua 'Phaze' Ellams

"Currently trying to riff"

__http://www.phaze05.com__

 

John Berkavitch

breakdancer/beat-boxer/hip-hop theatre practitioner

__http://www.johnberkavitch.com__

 

BYRON VINCENT

 

Based in: Bristol

 

"Who'd've thought a career in literature could be spawned from a shoplifted rhyming dictionary and the necessity to pay off physically zealous debtors. With poems such as Kevin's an 'erbert and Never buy drugs at a festival amongst his repertoire, Byron's subversive brand of barking doggerel has taken the UK slam poetry scene by storm and kicked it until it's handed over its wallet."

 

"Byron's poetry skips effortlessly between rhythmical proletarian poignancy and cutting leftfield humour. His verse carries us through his experiences of growing up within the limitations of sink estate subculture. Whilst somehow leaving space to touch on love, hedonism and, er, giant satanic hamsters."

 

"A consummate performer, achingly funny. He;s the brightest new star on the block" - Heidi Stephenson, Apples and Snakes

 

"Like a bad ass version of Roger McGough .. he's clever, witty, a cut above your average chav" - Rosemary Dun, Big Mouth Poetry

 

"Looks and sounds like he could easily of stumbled off an Arctic Monkeys tour bus"'' - Bristol Evening Post

 

__http://scan.lusu.co.uk/index.php?a=623__

 

TONY WALSH

 

Based in: Manchester

 

Poetic, empathic and comedic in equal measure, a multiple slam winner with quality in variety, sharp satire and sensuous smut

 

MICHAEL WILSON

 

Bisexual, bipolar, bilingual, by accident ... his work is full of broken hearted melancholy, broken fisted rants and broken headed hedonism

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