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Featuring Martin Shaw, Malika Booker and Tim Clare
Come in, huddle, warm yourself by the fire. World-renowned storytellers and poets are coming to Tongue Fu, stirring up a heady brew – a tonic for the dark nights.
In 2012 Tongue Fu aims to explore further, the boundaries of spoken word: inviting exceptional poets, storytellers, comedians, writers, performers and speakers to come and play with brilliant improvised accompaniments from the genre-defying Tongue Fu band (Nostalgia 77, UNKLE).
Dr Martin Shaw – Internationally celebrated mythologist, author and storyteller. Works with Rumi translator Coleman Barks and John Densmore (ex-drummer The Doors); is visiting lecturer at Oxford University and Director of School of Myth in Devon and California; a rare opportunity to see a master at work. “One of the very best storytellers we have” Robert Bly
Malika Booker Poet in Residence at RSC, playwright and storyteller, published by Penguin, Tate Modern and Bloodaxe. Featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4, founder of writer’s collective Malika’s Kitchen, she has performed all over the world. “Booker is a consummate storyteller, full of confident charm” Time Out
Tim Clare Stand-up poet, author & ukulele don, Tim’s performed on BBC Radio’s 1, 2, 4,and 6, BBC 2 and presented Channel 4’s ‘How To Get A Book Deal’. He’s written for The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, has two solo shows and a book called “We Can’t All Be Astronauts”. “absolutely mesmerizing…brilliant” Jon Ronson
Plus special guests and Poet In Residence Shane Solanki
Hosted by
Chris Redmond – As heard on BBC Radio 4’s Pick Of The Week
It's poetry, but not as you know it…amazing to listen to
The Guardian
Top performance poetry night
The Independent
Tongue Fu is at the high end of the scene.
Time Out
the best poetry night in London
WriteOutLoud.net
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