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We wrapped season 2 but stay tuned as we will be bringing y’all new interesting poetry content in the off season. First up is a swapcast from across the pond, “Word Spoken;” a poetry show hosted by Pen Clique fam Henry Betwick, featuring the best new poets in the UK scene. Henry dives into the stories and experiences behind his guests’ poems and presents it all with the high quality treatment we think poetry deserves. We love this show because of their captivating coverage of spoken word and we’re excited to put our listeners on to more exciting poetry content from the online poetry community. Subscribe to Word Spoken on YouTube and all podcast platforms, and stay tuned as we drop even more poppin poetry content throughout our off season.
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- Word Spoken online: Official Website
- Word Spoken on IG: @wordspokenpodcast
- Sarah Callaghan on IG: @scallaghan1
Instead of the Pen Clique bois gassing up our mans Henry about his new UK-based poetry podcast, we’re gonna let him talk to yall direct:
And a special write-up from Henry the gawd himself:
Word Spoken is a platform that shed’s light on what it means to live in modern Britain as told from the perspective of some of the UK’s finest poets. UK culture is diverse and different perspectives rarely share center stage.
Just like all other artistic expression, performance poetry and spoken word needs to evolve with the times in order to reach wider audiences and to stay relevant. Word Spoken podcast was launched with this in mind.
I started going to open mic nights in London and each night the talent I saw would blow me away. The cherry on top after the show was having a conversation with the poets themselves and getting to know the person behind the poetry. The combination of hearing these poets perform and having a chat with them afterwards was such a fulfilling experience it got me thinking.
With so much talent across the scene it seemed a shame to limit the reach of spoken word artists to the confinements of the open mic setting. More people needed to hear this.
I realised I needed to create a space for poets to showcase their work and as well as giving them a chance to open up a conversation about some of the issues and themes raised in their work.
From this, Word Spoken was born. On the show each poet performs 3 different pieces – each one bringing with them their own unique combination of lyricism, storytelling and performance.
From the comedic and entertaining to the passionate and purposeful, poetry is healing for both the writer and the listener. Word Spoken: Get to know the person behind the poetry.
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Off Page: July 2020
This time around we got Kae Cee representing Columbus with poetry love, Localcolor bringing the neo-soul vibes, the Pomona family and shwavy one himself Jonnie Bars who always is in fact bars, the songbird poet and Pen Clique family Brian Oliva with the music magic tricks, the slam god and hip hop hero Matthew Cuban bringing heat off his newest album Ivanna 2, and model, actress, author, and poet Arielle Estoria with all the love and healing you can fit into a single poem to close.
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Episode 11.5: The Catch Up
While the Clique’s been building a studio and Kuya been out cracking knuckles with IG’s most popping poetry presence, we high-key left the pod audience hanging longer than 2k D’Angelou fans waiting for black messiah. So we back real quick before season two launches in quick catch-up style to let ya’ll know what’s good!
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Episode 21 ft. Soul Stuf
Christian “Soul Stuf” Perfas unveils deep love lessons learned through poetry during ‘Threads and Lines’ and leaves the whole clique ready to continue the adoration by giving Mic Ting 3 perfect scores during the ‘2 Piece combo’. They all reluctantly reachinto their cringey poetry past for the #poetry review before Soul Stuf hits the Clique with a perfectly formatted Contrapuntal for the ‘Five for Ya Eye’ Prompted poem.
