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  • Hammer & Tongue Hackney feat. Toby Campion and Amy McAllister!

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    Hammer & Tongue Hackney feat. Toby Campion and Amy McAllister!

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    Nov 06 2018 19:30 - 22:30
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    Slam poetry and the best spoken word feature acts at Hammer & Tongue Hackney. This month featuring Toby Campion and Amy McAllister.

    Slam sign-up on the night. 

    Hosted by Sam Berkson.

    Tickets £7 in advance or £10 on the night.

    Toby Campion is a UK National Poetry Slam Champion and a World Poetry Slam finalist. Recipient of the Silver Wyvern Award and First Place in the Poetry on the Lake Prizes 2017, awarded by Carol Ann Duffy, Toby has performed his poetry on stages across the UK, from Glastonbury Festival to London’s Royal Albert Hall, and in countries around the world, including America, Italy, Spain, Albania and South Korea. His debut play, WRECK, won the Fifth Word Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright 2015.

    Director of UniSlam, Resident Artist at Camden’s prestigious Roundhouse and UK Young Artists Ambassador, Toby was one of the first resident poets of the River Thames. His poetry has been featured on national networks such as BBC Radio 2, Channel 4 and ITV and has been selected to represent the UK at numerous international conferences and events including Capturing Fire: International Queer Poetry Summit, the 18th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, the Paris Poetry World Cup and Next Generation Speaks.

    “Toby Campion’s poetry is smart, witty and brilliantly delivered” – Jonathan Ross

    “The voice of a generation” – BBC Sunday Politics

    “Intelligent, forthright and at every turn hilarious” – The Speakers Corner

    Videos here: https://tobycampion.co.uk/videos/

    Amy McAllister 
    The current Hammer & Tongue Hackney slam champion, McAllister is also a recent UK Anti-slam Champion, has won multiple poetry slams across Europe, and holds the Farrago Zoo Award for Best Feature Debut. Her first poetry collection Are You As Single As That Cream? was published by Burning Eye in December 2014 and her work also appears in Rhyming ThunderSouth Bank Poetry MagazineThe Pop Up AnthologyPlayerist, and Outwest

    [She is also an actor who has appeared in Call the Midwife, Witless and other notable things but she doesn't tend to like people knowing that.]

    Venue

    The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard St, EC2A 4RH London

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