Impro Slam
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On the 15th of August at 8.30 pm, the Edinburgh International Book Festival will stage Impro Slam - Packing a Punch with Poetry, an improvisational poetry slam which features spontaneous text creation live on stage. This innovative event challenges four poetry slammers to compete for the audience's favour.
Only one more day to go!! Here is what Catherine has to rhyme for herself:
The typical middle child
She's outrageous and wild
Her poems are never mild
Cat brogan - often riled
To get you in the mood for Wednesday, here comes the first of four poems about our slammers:
Adam is a poet who began as a rapper
he is average-sized but as a child he was fatter
he's not very good at lad-banter
because he doesn't like being mean, 'na'mean?'
Last but not least: an introduction to slammer #4!
//Catherine Brogan started at the age of 6, winning gold medals for saying (other people’s) poems at the Feis in her home town of Omagh, Northern Ireland. She set up a poetry night, got into hip hop and MC´ing when studying in York. She has been supporting Scroobius Pip vs. Dan le Sac and Skinny Man. She’s been described as a witty and funny stand-out performer, and is now heading from London to Edinburgh to go off on stage like a firew
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