poetry @ temperance | Tongue & Groove Poetry

Join us for the last of our first season of poetry cabaret evenings. Our featured poet is Tina Sederholm. Join us for the last of our 3 shows to immerse in all that is poetry. Following our sold out September and October events, we are delighted to welcome you to join us for the third night of our exciting 3 month season of poetry entertainment, with open mic slots, feature poet Edinburgh Fringe star performer Tina Sederholm, and in the second half our Dead Poets Poetry Slam, where audience cheering will score local poets reading poems by Dead Poets (Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickinson etc) to find a winner who will receive a silly prize. Our Poetry Slam motto will be “The Best Poet Always Loses”. Pre-show Poetry Workshop 6.30pm Also do come along to our free 40 minute poetry workshop starting at 6.30pm with the evening’s feature poet Tina Sederholm. To book the workshop add your show ticket then scroll down the Eventbrite bookings page till you find the correct booking drop-down. Open mic slots are 4 minutes long and we welcome your own original poems, also favourite poems that you love, and poems not in English, very welcome. There are 4 spots each month available for musicians, who get 5 minutes. Open Mic sign-ups on the door from 7.10pm. Show kicks off at 7.30pm About Tina Sederholm Tina Sederholm is an Oxfordshire-based poet, performer and editor. Her two collections, Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful, and This is Not Therapy, are published by Burning Eye. Winner of more than 20 slams and creator of five solo spoken word shows, she has performed everywhere from Edinburgh Fringe and The Royal Albert Hall to her local aquarium. Currently, she is host of shows Everything’s Working Out Poetically at the Old Fire Station, and Poetry Bakeoff at the Oxford Poetry Library. Completely spellbinding’ (***** edfringereview.com) ‘Stunning… reduced myself and other audience members to the sensitive and teary-eyed children we’re all hiding inside.’ (***** Three Weeks) With genial host local poet Matt Black. To take part in the Dead Poets Slam, or for more info: Matt 077656 84941