Sick of lovesick poets? Dreading the Valentine’s drivel? Too sarcastic for sickly sweet sentiments competitive poetry night Slam Bam Thank You Ma’am is back for a night of anti-Valentine vitriol, verve and vivacity as 10 local poets compete for the title of Sheffield’s Funny Valentine 2012.
Headlining the night will be Grande Dame of Slam… [...]
February 10, 2012
Sick of lovesick poets? Dreading the Valentine’s drivel? Too sarcastic for sickly sweet sentiments competitive poetry night Slam Bam Thank You Ma’am is back for a night of anti-Valentine vitriol, verve and vivacity as 10 local poets compete for the title of Sheffield’s Funny Valentine 2012.
Headlining the night will be Grande Dame of Slam… [...]
October 22, 2011
Monday 24th October, 7:30pm. Riverside Bar.
Following our previous post on the rather fabulous LaDIYfest we thought we should tell you about this equally fabulous event in the run up. Now Then 2010 poetry slam champion Sarah Thomasin brings you ‘Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am’; raising money for Sheffield Rape
August 13, 2011
Ahead of a review in next month’s Now Then I’ll be posting a series of short pieces about the wonderful performers from our Steel City making a splash in the Athens of the North at the worlds largest arts festival.
Slightly different today as I’m bringing you a preview of a show taking place tomorrow night rather than a review. Why? Because it’s one night only so if you… [...]
October 21, 2009
Once again we’re returning to the Off the Shelf fray, this time with a showcase of some of the UK’s finest performance poets.
The line-up will include regular Latitude and Glastonbury performer Byron Vincent, A.F. Harrold, who is reportedly ‘Spike Milligan and Peter Cook rolled into one’ – Daljit Nagra (no pressure then), Mark Gwynne Jones, who The Guardian called – ‘inspired… one of the most accomplished… [...]