Call for Applications: Saboteur Awards and Festival 2023 sabotagereviews.com/2022/11/28/cal…

💥The Forward Prizes announce a new category for #performance poetry launching nezt year!💥 #spokenword #ForwardPrizes 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Ever think 'Gee, it'd be handy to have a list of all the poetry/spoken word events happening in the UK this month?' Bex Bidgood ✨ has you covered! Each month they compile 100+ events into one handy list, organised geographically. Here's December! bexcreative.net/post/december-…

As we put #Jawdance to bed for this year, we thought we'd share with you a video which many of you are probably familiar with. Call it #ThrowBackThursday, here's 'A Short History of Spoken Word Poetry'. Does it resonate with you? #ThisIsAPoet youtu.be/S4HV3t1nZgo

I'm in Coventry at University of Warwick today for a workshop/conference on spoken word! We'll be discussing the potential of SW to empower communities & provoke social change (and complicating these ideas, too). More on the project: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philos… #poetry #spokenword

Fantastic to be in the same room with these great minds! So much rich discussion on the power of poetry for social change ❤ SWEAR Network University of Warwick

It's #IASILPostgrad day - I'm working on Irish spoken word poetry with an event-based approach to performance and a focus on concepts of voice. My number one tip: find the joy and excitement in your research and return to your materials again and again!

We'll be sharing a lot of #BlackBox content over the next weeks, it's a project between us and @esa_learning that brings together media students and poets - emerging and established - to create spoken word content. Learning from each other, we can build each other up #ThisIsAPoet

🔊 HELP US OUT! ✌️ We're planning a colossal gig this summer and we'd be really keen to know who is on your 'must see' list for performers. They can be state-side or UK-based, musician, rapper, poet/spoken word. Pop a comment below and let's see if we can make some magic ✨

This is the first year the Forward Prizes has had a category specifically for Best Performed Poem. This is a wonderful opportunity for Spoken Word Poets to be recognised for their work! Submissions are open until the 5th of March! ow.ly/Mt5l50MKBk5 #ForwardPrizes

This year's gathering of SWEAR (Spoken Word Educators & Academic Researchers). SWEAR! A Poetic Conversation on the Future of Spoken Word @ Unislam (The UK Nation University Slam and Summit) Sun 12th March | 13:30 - 15:30 Birmingham Hippodrome

🎧📻🎙️We're interested in hearing what poetry podcasts you're listening to these days! Any recommendations?

What is the role of the poet? Where do we now go now? This year, we're proud to host #SWEAR (Spoken Word Educators & Academic Researchers) for a panel discussion & performances from the UK's leading poetry educators: Lucy English, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Bohdan Piasecki & Ellen Moran.

🚨CFP alert!! 🚨 We're hugely stoked to say that the CFP for 'All Borders Blur' is now live! 🎉🎊 See allbordersblur.univie.ac.at for more details & CFP in accessible formats. 11-12 Nov '23 Queen Mary University of London Ft. keynotes by joelle taylor & Anthony Joseph! 👀 CFP deadline: 8 May '23 Come through!!

Enjoyed listening to Dr Lucy English Jacob Sam-La Rose @beveryquiet Pete The Temp and the range of perspectives in the room at our @swearnetwork panel discussion. Thank you to all who came along and contributed, there's energy and ideas to build on from this

🎉🎉 Yes! We absolutely want ideas from all over the UK. You still have time to think about the panel/paper/presentation/performance you might want to contribute, but May 8th (the deadline) will be upon us sooner than you think. #AllBordersBlur

Save the Date: vom 11.-13.05.23 findet unsere 2. Poetry DA Projekttagung zum Thema „Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung“ im Warburg-Haus in Hamburg statt. Weitere Infos: poetry-digital-age.uni-hamburg.de/veranstaltunge…