AWESOME!!!
We're always gripped by championship fever and July is going to be no exception!
We'll have our incredible slam with spots available in advance and a few saved for on the door (and even through the night if you get inspired).
This month, we'll also have Oscar W Isaacs headlining and K. Blair hosting!
Two rounds, one winner, £50 cash prize!
WANT TO SLAM?
Buying one of our ‘Slammer’ tickets guarantees you a spot in the slam.
If you miss those, you can sign up on the night, first come first serve
Doors + Slam Sign Up: 7:00pm
Start: 7:30pm
End: 10:30pm
(please respect our neighbours and leave quietly!)
Slam Rules:
One Night Slam is a Two Round poetry slam, every competing poet performs twice.
Slammers will have a 3 minute time limit with a 10 second grace period, after that they'll start to be deducted points.
Must be your own work.
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Oscar W Isaacs:
Oscar W Isaacs is a poet and spoken word artist based in North London. A multiple slam champion and a grand finalist of the Roundhouse Slam and Unislam 2026, he is a poetic ideologue whose work reckons (often intertextually) with sound, narrative and theatricality on whatever topic his brain is currently hyperfixating on. He is currently completing an MA in Poetry from the University of East Anglia, with some of the following works appearing in his dissertation.
K. Blair
K. Blair is a 25/26 Barbican Young Poet, and was previously a 24/25 Barbican Young Film Programmer, helping to curate the Chronic Youth Film Festival: Against All Odds. In June 2017, she took part in creating ‘A Poem For London’, at Spread the Word’s Young People’s Laureate for London Poetry Lab, and in 2019 was part of Apples and Snakes project, ‘The Writing Room’. Their chapbook The Death of the Cult Classic is published by kith books. Find them at your local independent cinema, or on Bluesky @kblair.bsky.social, Instagram @urban_barbarian, and their website, www.kblair.co.uk.