It’s time! The poets have spoken, the judges have voted and now we’ve arrived at the GENESIS POETRY SLAM 2024 FINAL!
Join us in the bar at the Genesis Cinema on Thursday 5th of December, where our new Genesis Grand Slam champion will be crowned! There can only be one winner, but who will it be? YOU DECIDE!
We have NINE of our fantastic monthly heat-winners returning to duke it out for the title and they’re the crème de a crème, the cat’s pyjamas, the top bananas…
Representing February… GEORGIE WILEMAN
Representing March… KOFI ACHINA
Representing April… ELLE DILLON-REAMS
Representing May… REDEEMING FEATURES\
Representing June… SVEN STEARS
Representing July… TIM KIELY
Representing September… SAM BROWNE
Representing October… JAKE NATHAN
Representing November… PATRICK BAXTER
PLUS, if that’s not enough for you – we’re very pleased to welcome one of our favourite poets on the whole damn planet KAT FRANÇOIS to kick off the show!
Kat François is a Performance and Movement based Artist, Writer and Educator, Writing and Performance Coach, and is a World Poetry Slam Champion. Kat has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Saturday Live and Woman’s Hour, as well as BBC TV & Sky, and featured on BBC television’s Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers. She has written and performed solo plays and comedy shows.
She is published in many anthologies and recently won a short story competition with her piece, INDIGO WATERS, which is featured in HIDDEN REALMS, SHORT STORIES, published by Flame Tree Publishing. RAISING LAZARUS, her play about Caribbean soldiers in the First World War, has been published by TSL Publications. Kat is currently working on a full poetry collection, a novel based on the experiences of Caribbean soldiers in World War One, a collection of short stories, as well as fiction and poetry for children.
All this for just £5! And if that’s STILL not enough for you, there’ll be the usual shenanigans and singsongs from the Genesis Slam Crew! (Warning: There will be Christmas music if Laurie has anything to do with it.)
There’s only one thing missing that would make the night perfect – YOU! Come cheer on your favourite poets and help us find our Genesis Slam 2024 Champion!
Our finals truly are one of the best poetry nights in the country – if you think the heats are good, you ain’t seen nothing yet! So whatever you do, don’t you dare miss this one and remember the points aren’t the point, the point is… THE POETRY!
Doors: 18:00
Start: 19:30
Curfew: 23:00 – Please note the final may run later than our monthly heats
*PLEASE NOTE: The final is not an open slam. Only poets who have qualified through one of our 2024 monthly heats can compete. Our next open heat will be in February 2025.*
