Poet Jam

This event is part our Poets In The Pit week - www.thecockpit.org.uk/poets

Rounding off our Poets In The Pit week, a fiesty and fiery night of poets and spoken words artists. Watch this space for further announcements of confirmed performers...

MC - Stephanie (aka Sonority) Turner is an eclectic creative artist who specialises in poetry, performance and education. Her work is street, visual, emotive and rhythmical. She is a published poet, a SlamBASSADOR UK Champion and a member of various writing and performance collectives (Elephant, Keats House Poets, The REC, Lyrically Challenged). She is currently the 'Poet' representing 'Camden' in the Adidas 2012 #takethestage campaign and has performed her work in various settings including The Roundhouse, Jazz Cafe, National Portrait Gallery, Union Chapel, Zanzibar's International Film Festival, China's Academy of Art, Old Vic Tunnels, The Big Chill House, Keats House, Guildhall, primary & secondary schools, on buses/trains and around many a festivals camp fire.

Jessie Durrant is an new up and coming poet from Cambridge who has been performing since February 2011. Since her very first open mic in February 2011 she has been performing at festivals and events all over the country, such as BoomTown Fair, Shambala Festival, Soho Theatre and recently she made it to the semi-finals of the Hammer and Tongue national finals in London (March 2012). Her passion for poetry started at a young age and by the time she was 15 she knew half of Shakespeare's sonnets by heart and spent all her spare time writing.

Indigo Williams is a dynamic poet and performance artist that commands the stage with gripping presence and powerful poetry.She uses poetry to create worlds on page, stage and in film. With both substance and passion her work is emotive and thought provoking. She has performed at various places and events such as, The Big Chill festival, iTunes Festival, Camp Bestival, The RoundHouse, BBC Radio 4’s ‘Bespoken word’, The Royal Shakespeare Company and many more.

Simon Mole hails from a land between spoken word, hip hop, and theatre. With an eye for the often overlooked in the everyday, his work is entertaining and accessible but remains rooted in a love of the craft of writing. Simon recently sold out the London run of his full length spoken word theatre show Indiana Jones and the Extra Chair, and is currently one of the lead artists on the Keats House Poets Forum, as well as one fifth of the Chill Pill collective.

Zia Ahmed is an up and coming poet and theater performer, he speaks with an honesty and in a real down to earth manner. He is the 2011 Roundhouse Poetry Slam champion, a member of the new collective Elephant and has made appearances as many of the top poetry events; Tongue Fu, Elephant in the Hub, bang said the gun, as well as music festivals; Bestival & Camp Festival.

Nadia Khomani is a member of the Barbican Young Poets collective. A keen performer, her poetry has previously been featured in several publications and exhibitions, including the Huffington Post, Little Episodes, the Woolfson & Tay Gallery, Reel Rebels Radio, and Mint and Volume magazines.

Further artists TBC...