🌈🎤 'Summer of #LOVEwire' UK tour, glorious gigs, happenings and festivals already confirmed, more dates to be announced!! #LIVEwire ⚡️by #salenagodden special edition double vinyl album with alternative content, performances and mixes will be released this spring with visionary @mattabbottpoet #spokenwordlabel @nymphsandthugs #linkinbio follow @nymphsandthugs for info and climb aboard, everyone welcome #wedonotholdhandswithhate . . . . . #summeroflove #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #spokenword #vinyl #poetryalbum #fishingintheaftermath @burningeyebooks #springfieldroad @unbounders #thegoodimmigrant #festivalseason #artslab #bookslam #wellcomebookprize #14hoursuperweirdhappening #cosmictrigger #findtheothers #23 #loverevolution #loveistheanswer

💥 Tonight was brilliant 💥 Thank you @Bookslam and all who made it to #manbookerprize #bookslam #houseofstbarnabas #soho - this photo taken by Elliott during my reading, #thegoodimmigrant #shade "we are building a cathedral of otherness, brick by brick, book by book" 🙏🏽❤️ (at The House of St Barnabas)

just for you @willkostakis 👊🏻 . ~ { #bookslam #ohthesatisfaction #Frankie #TheSidekicks #revengeissweet #mwahaha #bookwormsVSauthors #thinklovelythoughts } (at Dymocks Adelaide)

I went to Bookslam in east London this evening and it was brilliant. If you get a chance to go, I really recommend it! There's one a month and it moves from venue to venue across London. It's a kind of literary variety performance. They have an author, a comedian, a poet usually and a few other performers along the way. Tonight's was great, I particularly loved Kate Tempest who is a performance poet, among other things. I'd never heard of her and I really didn't think I would have any interest in performance poetry but she's electric to watch. She's very quiet and honest and then she just comes alive in her poetry and is piercingly observational about the world we live in. I recommend checking out her stuff and Bookslam.

When you get so sick of your non potterhead friends not understanding your Harry potter references:

The 62nd Book Slam Podcast is fuller than a family bucket and arguably more sustaining. It features DBC Pierre, reading from and discussing the brilliant 'Petit Mal', Michael Smith introducing us to 'Unreal City', music from Thabo and The Real Deal, comedy from Matt Okine, and the ineffable Salena Godden' reading from her childhood memoir, 'Springfield Road'. Hosted by Elliott Jack and Patrick Neate reuniting in a London studio for the first time in months...

The 56th Book Slam Podcast includes MATT HAIG expressing an alien view of 'The Humans', ROSS SUTHERLAND dedicating a poem to someone very special, simply beautiful music from the extraordinary SOAK, and CAITLIN MORAN on being late for the Prime Minister. Patrick is taking ibuprofen, Elliott notes that the drugs don't work.