Since 1994, our rainy island nation has set aside the otherwise dreary first Thursday of October every year to celebrate an art form that writers have begged, borrowed, stolen, manipulated, warped and loved since before being “British” was even a thing: the poem. From the moment Homer set down his Iliad, poetry has been firmly […]
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A slamming success
Confession: Yesterday, I had no idea what a Poetry Slam was. A third year English Lit student with the words “culture vulture” in the bio section of my Instagram page, yet still clueless when it came to slam-dunking sonnets. Any knowledge I had of this murky world of metaphors was gleaned from 22 Jump Street (“YELLING! Julia ROB- hurts…”) and Katie Makkai’s slam-poem ‘Pretty’ (check […]