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Burn After Reading Presents... Siddhartha Bose Here’s a snapshot of Siddhartha Bose’s electric performance, entitled ‘London’s Perverted Child.’ He will be featuring at Burn After Reading Presents, alongside Toni Stuart and BARPo on April 7th at Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden. SIDDHARTHA BOSE is a poet, playwright and performer based in London. His poetry books are Kalagora and Digital Monsoon (Penned in the Margins 2010/ 2013) and his poetry has appeared internationally in Fulcrum (USA), Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe, 2009), and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins, 2013, India). Siddhartha has been featured on BBC 4, BBC Radio 3 and was dubbed one of the ‘ten rising stars of British poetry’ by The Times. He has performed at Latitude, the British Council Showcase 2012, Oxford University, Royal Festival Hall and Ronnie Scott's and in New York City, Berlin, Finland, Estonia, and India. Find out more here: www.kalagora.com Our Facebook event is available here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1645289995698753/ Our Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/BARPoetry Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BARPoets Tweetings: @BARpoetry Hosted by Harriet Creelman and Lewis Buxton

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”  ― Virginia Woolf

Open Arts Café is an evening of new work by up-and-coming artists. This month they are exploring all things WOMAN.

Please come along for the usual wine, cheese and crackers while the guest artists delve into the female, the feminine and the feminist.

Where/When: Open Arts Café Thursday, March 26th Doors open 7:15PM Show starts 8PM 34 Upper Berkeley Street (gated entrance near Green Valley Shop) Nearest tube Marble Arch Pay what you can (£6 suggested donation)

Featuring: Poetry from - Rachel Long www.writesrachell.com Music from - Dear Joy http://www.dearjoymusic.com/ Hannah Rose Platt http://hannahroseplatt.com/ Maya Levy www.mayalevy.co.uk

Theatre from - Eleanor Buchan www.eleanorbuchan.com

Character Comedy from - Megan Ford www.meganford.co.uk  

Burn After Reading Presents... TONI STUART Toni Stuart is featured as part of Badalisha Poetry Exchange, a poetry archive dedicated to spotlighting Pan-African poets. You can follow the link above to her page in the archive, which showcases some of her beautiful work. We can’t wait to have Toni feature on April 7th at Burn After Reading Presents, Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden. We also recommend that you take a stroll through all the other poetry hosted on Badilisha, it’s mind opening.

A roster of BARPo will be performing alongside Toni and other feature poet, Siddhartha Bose. Stay close by for line up announcements. Our Facebook event is available here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1645289995698753/ Our Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/BARPoetry Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BARPoets Tweetings: @BARpoetry Hosted by Harriet Creelman and Lewis Buxton

On February 21st, 1965 Malcolm X was assassinated in New York, USA. On February 21st, 2015, we will mark his 50th anniversary at Deptford Cinema, London, UK. Join us for a special screening of John Akomfrah’s, ‘Seven Songs for Malcolm X’, followed by commissioned poems by seven poets from Jacob Sam La Rose and Jasmine Ann Cooray’s Burn After Reading (BAR), and Barbican Young Poet (BYP) Collectives, PLUS Special Guest, Brooklyn poet, performer and vocalist, Tracie Morris - supported by Renaissance One. Commissioned BAR & BYP poets: Amaal Said, Sunayana Bhargava, Victoria-Anne Bulley, Tania Nwachuku, Kieron Rennie, Dami Odeola. Curated by Jacob Sam-La Rose & Rachel Long Host: Jasmine Ann Cooray. Event Organizer: Jameela Khan The event was inspired by ‘Sneaking Ghosts Through the Back Door,’ an article written by John Akomfrah, and featured in Black Film Bulletin magazine, 1993. In it, Akomfrah discusses the life of Malcolm X within the context of being British and Black - with a focus on the minor, or often absent details of his life, "to sneak a few of these ghosts into the back door." We will commemorate Malcolm’s life, and his legacy through film & poetry in the hope that it will open new dialogues not only about Malcolm X, but also about what it is to grow up Black and British today. We hope you can join us for an insightful evening, marking the life and legacy of an outspoken black leader. Limited Tickets: £3-£5 (first come, first served). Doors will open at 7pm, for a prompt start at 8pm. Film starts at 8pm – late comers will not be admitted. Where: Deptford Cinema, 39 Deptford Broadway, London, SE8 4PQ.

Burn After Reading Presents Charlotte Higgins

We are delighted to announce that Charlotte Higgins will be one of the BAR poets featuring in a 10 minute slot at Burn After Reading Presents on Wednesday 10th December at The Seven Dials Club. Here's a snapshot of her performance from our October event, poem entitled, Storage Room 1B.

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.

Salena Godden and Adam Kammerling will be our guest feature poets this month.

Here's a link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/749450205138615/?ref=22

An early evening experiment/ poetry chill curated & hosted by BAR poet Belinda Zhawi, Chima Nsoedo & LimeWharf. LAST SHOW of the year.

An unbelievable line up of poets featuring Kareem Parkins-Brown (BAR), Bridget Minamore, Brother Portrait and Toni Stuart. Click the link to read more about their awesomeness. There will also be readings from the hosts and opportunity to open mic, sign up by contacting [email protected].

Door policy is pay what you can.

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.