The up and coming London-based poet Ray Antrobus runs a blog called “Shapes & Disfigurements“. It’s a good read, generally speaking, but I find one of the sections especially interesting: it’s an ever-growing collection of Q&As with spoken word poets. As an interviewer, Ray manages to keep a very light-hearted and informal tone, and I [...]
May 19, 2010
During the Smoke & Mirrors stay in Madrid, Paula Varjack and I were interviewed by Nicolas Jackson for “North by Southwest”, an English-language programme on the Spanish radio. You can listen to us talk about spoken word poetry, audiences, and our European tour by following this link. Enjoy! Picture source.
April 25, 2010
Our hold over television screens in the Iberian Peninsula just got stronger: the TVE1 news item about La Noche de los Libros includes a brief mention of the spoken word poetry event which featured, among others, a performance from Smoke and Mirrors. I even appear on screen for about two seconds, around the 1:10 mark, only [...]
March 24, 2010
There were TV cameras present at our Lisbon show, and now we found out why: we were featured in the latest instalment of Câmara Clara, a cultural programme on the national television channel RTP2. You can watch the episode by following this link; the section about the nascent Lisbon poetry slam scene, and our visit [...]
July 14, 2010
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