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SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This
- Author
- Nikita Gill
- Narrator
- Nikita Gill
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 3 September 2020
- Run Time
- 2 hours 26 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage: Poetry / poems, Children’s / Teenage: Anthologies, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Physical and mental health conditions, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and behaviours, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Gender identity, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: LGBTQIA+, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and health, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Literature, books and writers, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Youth clubs, societies, groups and organisations, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Gift and novelty books / items
What to expect
It's time to reclaim poetry.
Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene. Empowering, inspiring and often hilarious, SLAMs are a platform for well-known and emerging talent from all walks of life where every style of poetry has a home.
With poets such as Raymond Antrobus, Sophia Thakur and Dean Atta guest starring alongside up-and-coming poets, this is the perfect introduction to world of modern poetry. Each poet will introduce their poem, tell you a little bit about themselves and give you a tip for preparing brilliant performance poetry.
This programme is performed by Nikita Gill and the poets.
Critics Review
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SLAM was one of the best poetry collections I’ve read in a long time. With some poems leaving me in tears and others imparting feelings of joy.
Jaspreet Kaur, award-winning poet and author of Brown Girl Like Me
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A life-affirming and transformative collection, curated by a huge talent
Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars
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Buy for your teenager, buy for yourself – basically buy a copy for everyone you know and introduce them to the incredible talent of voices that urgently need to be heard.
The Independent
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Details
- Author
- Nikita Gill
- Narrator
- Nikita Gill
- Duration
- 2 hours 26 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 September 2020
- ISBN
- 9781529028324
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage: Poetry / poems, Children’s / Teenage: Anthologies, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Physical and mental health conditions, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and behaviours, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Gender identity, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: LGBTQIA+, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and health, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Literature, books and writers, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Youth clubs, societies, groups and organisations, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Gift and novelty books / items
Synopsis
It's time to reclaim poetry. Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene. Empowering, inspiring and often hilarious, SLAMs are a platform for well-known and emerging talent from all walks of life where every style of poetry has a home. With poets such as Raymond Antrobus, Sophia Thakur and Dean Atta guest starring alongside up-and-coming poets, this is the perfect introduction to world of modern poetry. Each poet will introduce their poem, tell you a little bit about themselves and give you a tip for preparing brilliant performance poetry.This programme is performed by Nikita Gill and the poets.
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