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The Burn After Reading Poets’ monthly event is here again -

Now at the Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden ‘Burn After Reading Presents’ returns on Wednesday 10th December for a Christmas special featuring Salena Godden, Adam Kammerling and our very own Burn After Reading Poets -

SALENA GODDEN has been described as ‘The doyenne of the spoken word scene’ (Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 3’s The Verb); ‘The Mae West madam of the salon’ (The Sunday Times) and as ‘everything the Daily Mail is terrified of’ (Kerrang! Magazine). Her pamphlet ‘Under the Pier’ was published in 2011, followed by ‘Fishing in The Aftermath, Poems 1994 - 2014’ in 2014. Her eagerly awaited literary memoir ‘Springfield Road’ was published in September 2014.

Salena appears at literary events and festivals internationally and she is on BBC as a guest on various shows like ‘The Verb’, ‘Fact to Fiction’ ‘The Click’ and ‘Loose Ends’. Her radio documentary ‘Tenderness – The Lost Legacy of Little Miss Cornshucks’ was aired throughout May 2014 on BBC Radio 4 and is currently available as a podcast on iTunes. www.salenagodden.com

ADAM KAMMERLING is the Hammer And Tongue UK Slam Champion 2012, the Hackney Slam Champion 2011 and the Brighton Slam Champion 2010. He is also a member of the critically acclaimed Chill Pill Poetry Collective and a celebrated MC. His work incorporates all elements of spoken word while always keeping one eye firmly on the fun. He has written and performed for the BBC's Natural History Unit, the British Arts Council in Poland, at Glastonbury, Latitude and countless other festivals. His poetry has taken him to Ireland, New York and the Netherlands, and to theatres, pubs and living rooms all over the UK. http://adamkammerling.co.uk

Here's a link to our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/749450205138615/

Almost a week ago now and we’ve only just settled back on the ground after being shaken into the air by the BAR poets and features at November’s instalment of Burn After Reading Presents! Thank you so much to those who made it down and charged the night with your open mouths and energy.

BAR poets featured were Safi Strand, Cameron Brady-Turner, Carmina Masoliver, Belinda Zhawi, Tyrone Lewis, Rena Minegishi and Amaal Said.

Feature poets were Yomi ‘Greeds’ Sode : http://www.iamgreeds.com/ and Cat Brogan, who filled in for Katie Bonna: http://catbrogan.com/

Give them a follow, catch up with their work, have your minds opened.

We’ll be back on December 10th, peel your eyes here for other BAR event news and line up releases.

Above is a link to another blog by poet, musician and writer Meg Burrows. She gave our event a visit at our new venue, Seven Dials Club and produced this heartfelt review of each poet's performance at Burn After Reading Presents... If you fancy a detailed insight into the event, its vibe, and the kind of work we're bringing to each night, this review is a great start.

Our video channel is here and hosts performances from our last event, with more to come soon: http://www.youtube.com/user/BARPoets

Burn After Reading Presents… Poet Annoucnement!

Next to bring the fire! Tyrone Lewis will be one of the BAR poets performing at Burn After Reading Presents this October in our new venue, The Seven Dials Club. 

Tyrone is a full time video editor, but is way more than BARPo's faithful camera guy. He has been writing and performing since he was 13. He's performed across the country being involved in a number of different projects including The Word Cup in 2010 and Shake The Dust is 2012. Tyrone is also a former Roundhouse Slam Champion and has also helped organise the event in the past.

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/289506197907192/

Clip Of The Day - Paula Varjack, 'Why You Should Never Date An Artist.'

She’ll be featuring at Burn After Reading Presents… on 7th October at Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, 7:45pm, £3 on the door.

Burn After Reading Presents… Poet Annoucnement!

We are delighted to announce that Charlotte Higgins will be one of the BAR poets performing at Burn After Reading Presents this October in our new venue, The Seven Dials Club.  Charlotte Higgins is a young poet and writer from Northern Ireland. She is a previous winner of SLAMbassadors UK (2011) and the Foyle Young Poet of the Year award (2010). She has performed in venues including the 100 Club, Buckingham Palace, the Royal Festival Hall, and Nuyorican Poetry Café (New York), and in summer 2012 worked with Poetry Parnassus festival and as a national judge on Shake the Dust youth poetry slam. 

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/289506197907192/

who disappeared from Shanghai and whose body, his brother believes, is now on display in New York City in an exhibition of plastinated cadavers

In some province a hemisphere from here you tapped at your grandmother’s kneecap, her elbow crooked in bags of bok choy, bamboo shoots, and rapeseed oils. You shouldered her skins of bean curd all the way back to market, towards a farmhand she paltered for bargains.

Of you and that day, your brother remembers this most: how your diaphragm shook as if sorry for the quick of her tongue. How each capillary and joint grieved the reach of her teeth. And he swears

he sees your red wince in the subway ads, this bus stop poster where you have become a mannequin of tendons, a mock Thinker pumped with tinctures and phosphorescent balms, cured,

desiccated in silicon gas. Your flayed fist against a mandible, your brother lays hands on your knuckles. He traces aloud the syllables of your given name. Imagines the sound of a boy’s now ossified heart.

He’ll be featuring at Burn After Reading Presents… on 7th October at Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, 7:45pm, £3 on the door.

Burn After Reading Presents... Poet Annoucnement!

Can you see his mouth? We are delighted to announce that Antosh Wojcik will be one of the BAR poets performing at Burn After Reading Presents this October in our new venue, the Seven Dials Club.  Antosh Wojcik is a poet, performer, writer. He uses language as a form of striptease. He was joint Roundhouse Poetry Slam Champion 2013 andhas been a featured act at events such as Glastonbury's Poetry & Words Stage, Bang Said The Gun, Tilt, Tongue Fu, Chill Pill, Apples and Snakes’ Big Talk and The Last Word Festival at the Roundhouse.

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/289506197907192/