Inky Fingers is back! And we’re delighted to be working in association with StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, and the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, to bring you the first in our second year of events:
Risk-A-Verse Friendly Slam
Saturday 8th October, 7.30pm
Byre Theatre, Abbey Street, St Andrews
£3 / £2
open entry performance poetry showdown!
email director@stanzapoetry.org to book a slot
fourteen poets compete for your cheers, tears laughs and scores: judged by you, the audience!
plus special prizes for all types of poet, witty repartee, bad puns, and a lot more besides.
Details for Competitors
We’ll be running in three rounds:
Heats – 14 poets – 2.5 mins per poet – judged by 5 randomly selected audience judges
Semis – 4 poets (2 head-to-head pairs) – 3 mins per poet – judged by the whole audience
Final – 2 poets head-to-head – 3.5 mins per poet – judged by the whole audience
Along with the audience-judged champion, we’ll have special prizes awarded by a panel for “funniest poem”, “loveliest poem”, “poem most likely to incite an uprising”, and a range of other categories made up without warning.
Props, costumes, &c. all permitted (but not necessarily recommended); all poetry must be original work.
The most important rules will be: have fun, be kind, and don’t take it seriously.
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