Monday 24 June 2013

Poem For Mandela (A Short Walk, A Long Way)


About A Road (A Short Walk, A Long Way)
For Mandela

In a Cape Town township
(Where me and Josie volunteer)

I hear a choir singing
behind the shiny tin of red church walls

and wonder how voices
can sound like they're smiling.

I ask Josie, but she does not know
why it matters.

Can she not feel the harmony
float their weight up

 above the row of shacks
     painted yellow and blue -

flaring in the after-school heat?
I ask Josie to slow her walk -

I want to bask in this song,
      to feel its glow.   

     Josie does not slow down.
Her feet do not know

that I have come to
  this difficult, bright blooded

country to heal,
and this is what I needed to hear -

     people bringing their faith
together and singing

     about a road
troubled with dirt.

Tuesday 11 June 2013

NEWS JUST IN! Poets ACTUALLY start to promote themselves - Here's a new promo video for Chill Pill.



Next show is June 20th at Soho Theatre 

Byron Vincent

John Cooper Clarke says "he's a genius" and The Times called him “The most precocious talent on show”. Bristol based poetical satirist Byron Vincent will have you laughing and thinking in equal measure.

http://www.byronvincent.com/

Kimberly Anne

A Chill Pill favourite, she's just been booked to play alongside The Rolling Stones so you know she's the real deal! Chill Pill have long been a platform for superstars on the way up (note Ed Sheeran & Marquis Toliver)

Check out her single 'Bury it There' here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTjBPMQ0_EI

Plus Bournemouth Poet Selby & London based Sonority Turner. 


Tickets ON SALE NOW! HERE - http://www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/chill-pill