Tag: performance poetry
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Why so many witches?
Wordy witches is a theme we come back to often, in a light-hearted way. Is it because as poets we can’t resist the alliteration? Maybe our feminist souls are drawn to the power of crones and the history of women’s oppression? Or perhaps as performers we’ve never quite grown out of dressing up? Whatever it…
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Vox Feminarum – voice of the women
We’re delighted to announce the launch of our first spoken word album, Vox Feminarum! Earlier this year we were approached by Doc Ritchie from AVZounds with a request for poems to set to musical soundscapes, part of his practice as a sound artist. A call-out ensued, and the poems rolled in – here now is…
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Spoken Word Boot Camp 2025
Applications are now open for our third (and last?) Spoken Word Boot Camp at Middlesbrough Town Hall this summer. This intensive 6-Saturday course is open to women and gender non-conforming poets who live, work, or study in Teesside. Led by experienced TWP sisters, each session teaches essential skills for performing your words with confidence. Participants…
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Crowdsourced Creativity #2
Back in June we held a special in-person edition of TWOOMPH! (the open mic with OOMPH!) at Hartlepool Hub, as part of Crossing the Tees book festival. We always have shenanigans of some kind at TWOOMPH!s, and this time we rather cheekily nicked a poem format from the brilliant King Ink (James Whitman & Helen…
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Pride is for always
We’re nearly at the end of Pride Month, but our commitment doesn’t end. Our latest podcast is a taste of episodes to come in Redcar, and in it we platform a lot of queer voices and explore lots of gender identify issues with the young people of the Blooming Youth collective. Growing Up A Girl……
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Boot Camp is Back!
We’re fizzing with excitement to let you know that APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for Spoken Word Boot Camp 2024! Read more about the SWBC here. Such a positive, powerful experience. I have gone from ‘reading’ my poems to ‘performing’ them, finally! Up to 12 women poets aged 18 + will be chosen to form a…
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Scum!! The voices of Thriving Women
International Women’s Day is here again, and with that comes the myriad voices of women across the world, shouting out their experiences, their opinions, and their visions for a more equitable future. We’re so proud to showcase the work of the Thriving Women collective again today, with a brand-new collective poem and film-poem called ‘Scum’.…
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The trees are speaking
Winter arrived in magical style for us, when seven of our poets were commissioned to write and record poems in the voices of certain trees in Stewart Park, Middlesbrough. Those trees were then brought to life with huge illuminated eyeballs, and our voices were broadcast to the hundreds of people walking past – all part…
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Rebellious joy!
Caroline Walling, the Curious Ink-Smith, is about to be the very first TWP poet-in-residence at DRAKE the Bookshop, so we thought we’d ask her what’s it’s all about and how people can get involved… What does a bookshop poet-in-residence do? I wasn’t entirely sure at first, but I had a LOT of ideas about things…
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