Shake the Dust Regional Finals
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Shake the Dust Regional Finals

Shake the Dust slams its way to a region near you. The biggest poetry slam this country has ever seen. Join the next generation of young poets, leading spoken word artists and special guests as spoken word takes centre stage in this celebration of young people’s voices. Forty young people from nine...
Shake the Dust: Slammin' It in 2012!
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Shake the Dust: Slammin’ It in 2012!

Shake the Dust is a nationwide youth poetry slam, giving young people the opportunity to work with leading spoken word poets to write, perform and compete with their words. As Olympic and Paralympics athletes train, young people from across the country are working with leading spoken word artists to share their stories and find...
Poetry Changed Me: Claire Trevien
Poetry Changed Me / West Midlands

Poetry Changed Me: Claire Trevien

Poetry Changed Me posts are all about how poetry has had an impact on some of the spoken word artists around the country and the world. Today we have published poet Claire Trevien tell us about leaping out the poetry closet… Before poetry entered my life, I was an eccentric...
The importance of youth slam: An interview with Dr. Helen Gregory
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The importance of youth slam: An interview with Dr. Helen Gregory

We start 2012 with a special interview with Dr Helen Gregory, performance poet, lecturer and researcher in the benefits of youth poetry slam. Tell us a bit about yourself I teach psychology at the University of Gloucestershire and carry out research into the arts as part of my job there....
Champions of the Word
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Champions of the Word

Anyone who’s witnessed a group of young people up on stage, putting everything they’ve got into a slam poetry performance, will know that youth slam is alive and well in the UK. Across the country, diverse and different slam programmes bring poetry into schools, theatres, community centres and youth groups,...

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Shake the Dust is a nationwide youth poetry slam, giving young people the opportunity to work with leading spoken word poets to write, perform and compete with their words. Have a look at our About page for more information, or take a look at what’s happening in your Region.

'Poetry Changed Me': Katy Else
Poetry Changed Me

‘Poetry Changed Me’: Katy Else

Katy Else is a South-West Shadow Poet on Shake the Dust. Katy tells us how Poetry has changed her… “At school I loved English, fantasy fiction and wild stories but it wasn’t until I hit my teens that I really started writing. I used to be all Gothic and write by moonlight and larva lamp, and what...
Poet, Sebastian: Slam in Germany
International Focus

Poet, Sebastian: Slam in Germany

Poet, Sebastian 23 tells Shake the Dust about the Slam Poetry Scene in Germany : “When I came into the German Poetry Slam scene in 2002, people told me that I was putting energy into a thing that was way beyond it’s climax. Until then Poetry Slam in Germany had been growing for eight or nine years...
Shadows in the Light
News / South East

Shadows in the Light

One thing that is unique about Shake the Dust is that up and coming poets get a chance to work with more experienced poetry workshop facilitators. My coach Mike Parker has gradually given me more and more responsibility, and as a result my confidence has grown both as a poet and a person. I hooked...

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