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Spoken Word in the UK is a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to spoken word performance in the UK - its origins and development, its performers and audiences, and the vast array of different styles and characteristics that make it unique. Drawing together a wide range of authors including scholars, critics, and practitioners, each chapter gives a new perspective on performance poetics. The book's six sections cover the essential elements of understanding the form and discuss how this key aspect of contemporary performance can be analysed stylistically, how its development fits into the context of performance in the UK, the ways in which its performers reach and engage with their audiences, and its place in the education system. Each chapter is a case study of one key aspect, example, or context of spoken word performance, combining to make the most wide-ranging account of this form of performance currently available. This is a crucial and ground-breaking companion for those studying or teaching spoken word performance, as well as scholars and researchers across the fields of theatre and performance studies, literary studies, and cultural studies. Iturria: Argitaratzailea

List of contributors ...x
Foreward by Luke Kennard ...xii
Introduction: setting the stage: an introduction to spoken ...1
Jack McGowan and Lucy English

SECTION 1
Background to spoken word in te UK ...15
1. Biting back against the fascist octopus: the story of apples and sankes ...17
Russell Thompson
2 Suffering fools: the survival and adaptation of British absurd, comic, and satirical traditions in the era of poetry slams ...27
Steve Larkin
3 Black country, ay we - voices from post-industrial Britain ...41
Emma Purshouse and R.M. Francis
4 The new october poets ...51
Adrian Johnson
5 Grasgow, Scotland and spoken word from 1986 to 2018 ...63
Jim Ferguson
6 A critical account of the development of spoken word events and settings in Wales in collaboration with partners in sweden and Ireland ...75
Mel Perry and Dominic Williams
7 The democracy of poetry: the Bristol spoken word scene ...88
Lucy Englizh

SECTION 2. Audience and performer ...107
8 The spoken word experience: affect transmission in contemporary performance poetry ...109
Jack McGowan
9 The limitations of the page/stage dichotomy: examinig the page/satge divide ...122
Niall O'Sullivan
10 Exploring the relationship between audience and performer, the implications of the affective turn in reader-response and the emancipation of the passive spectator ...133
Scott Martingell
11 'Speak your truth': authenticity in UK spoken word poetry ...142
Katie Ailes
12 Audience as co-author: poet-audience relationship in performance poetry ...154
Lauren McNamara
13 Listen to me! The moral value of the poetry ...166
Karen Simecek
14 Audience and performer responses to performing 1-2-1 and intimate poetry ...178
Debra Watson

SECTION 3. Cultural exchange ...191
15 Poetic Orality in workings-class culture 1840-1870 ...193
Simon Rennie
16 She Grrrowls: feminism in contemporary spoken word ...207
Carmina Masoliver
17 Playing for affect in counterpublics: an interdisciplinary investigation into the transformative potencial of spoken word hybridity ...221
Katy Wareham Morris
18 The metic experience of the Black British Writer: challenging the margins ...235
Nick Makoha
19 Overthrowing societal norms through the spoken word: Benjmani Zephatiah's dub poetry in City Psalms ...246
Ian Hickey
20 The impact of Malika's Poetry Kitchen on the UK poetry scene ...260
Sundra Lawrence

SECTION 4. Sttyles and techniques ...277
21 Fish out of water or creative chameleon? Spoken word as a form of social mobility ...279
Kate Fox
22 Style and technique in spoken word ...292
David Hubble
23 British spoken word voice ...306
Hannah Silva
24 I thought I was just coming to watch: audience participation in spoken word performance ...322
Rose Condo

SECTION 5. Pedagogy of spoken word ...335
25 How can developing an Overarching Pedagogical Metaphor defining muy own poetics, aid my teaching of creative writing and 'Spoken Word Education'? ...337
Amy Neilson Smith
26 Spoken word education: the role of a spoken word educator: pitfalls and possibilities ...351
Sara Hirsch ...351
27 Searching for consistency: applying Reflective Equilibrium to performance poetry criticism ...363
Ross McFarlane and Bibi June Schwithal
28 Spoken word as therapy and power ...375
Jhilmil Breckenridge
29 Intersections between spoken word in the UK and US: a nexus in dialogue ...383
Helen Johnson and Jacob Sam-La Rose

SECTION 6. Publicity and distribution ...397
30 Speaking with machines and machines that speak: spoken word and digital performance poetry ...399
David Devanny
31 The capital of culture and the culture of capital: the controversy of commerce in spoken word ...411
Peter Bearder
32 Poetry slam in the UK ...423
Toby Campion
33 More show, less tell? How do we talk about spoken word now that it is working on a theatre stage? ...437
Sharon Clark and Ruth Stacey
34 Spoken word in print: instant coffe: a conversation with Clive Birnie from Burning Eye Books ...449
Clive Birnie (interviewed by Lucy English)
Index ...456