Thursday, June 25, 2009

LONDON: Utter! Cats

Thursday, July 9th, 2009, 7pm-10pm, FREE / donation
Whitechapel Art Gallery,
Whitechapel High Street,
London
(Tube: Aldgate East)

Utter! Spoken Word presents: UTTER! CATS
Open mic and special guests

Open mic special: read 2 poems; one poem of your own about cats, one not about cats, or one from the pile of cat poems written by little old ladies about their dead cats, or T.S. Eliot's Book of Practical Cats or something.

Sign up 6.30pm (NO prebooking) - 7.30pm showtime. Winner wins a book of cat poems and a place in the Utter! Ajar Mic 2009 Grand Final. Winner for best fancy dress! (As a cat).

CAT FACE PAINTING!

A SPECIAL CAT FLAP ALL READERS MUST ENTER THROUGH (unless you're disabled)

ALL TOILETS REPLACED WITH LITTER TRAYS!*

Special guests:
Karen Hayley: She's been on the Armstrong & Miller show, Bo Selecta and MTV, she's been in VELOCITY, (the very best of Apples & Snakes) / Black Spring Press / Main Street / Breakfast all day / Gargoyle / Rising / Dogmatika / Pen Pusher / Poetry International Rotterdam, now she's AT Utter! where she'll give us a catalogue of cat facts in a cat suit. Purrrrr-fect.

Graham Buchan: Mild-mannered tom hiding a scratching post of subtly erotic poetry from his book There Is Violence In These Vapours. By the end, you'll be glad they never took him to the vets!

Tim Wells: You know him as the Forward-Prize nominated editor of Rising magazine - the "Reader's Wives of Poetry mags" according to John Cooper Clarke, with poems about dance halls and pool club assassins from his book Rougher Yet. But you didn't know he had cat poems, oh yes.

Hosted by mischevious Ginger Tom Richard Tyrone Jones.

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