spoken word

Impact talks to the Poetry and Spoken Word Society in this collaboration podcast!  In Impact’s first podcast of the new year, Lauren talks with Phoebe Kate Wade and Sophie Jayne Horton from the university Poetry and Spoken Word Society about their plans for this year, the ins and outs...

Ahead of A Quite Enormous Poetry Event at Nottingham Playhouse, Lauren caught up with the evening’s host, Ben Norris, to find out more about the event and poets involved. Lauren: 2019 has been a big year for poetry in Nottingham, from the success of Nottingham Poetry Festival to this...

Emily explores the rise in Instagram and spoken word poetry and the current debate over whether these forms count as poems. ...

I first came across Andrea Gibson’s work on Spotify, after listening to their album Hey Galaxy! An amalgamation of beautiful spoken word poetry put to music. Each piece felt like a snippet of someone’s rawest moments, collated to create a patchwork of love, loss, identity and family. A lot...

Having only been to Rock City on a crisis night before and never to a gig there, I was very excited to see what it would be like and I was not disappointed. “Their music conveys the too familiar nervousness we have all experienced” I was first introduced to...

Following their critically-acclaimed sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival two years in a row, Harry & Chris are taking over The Level at Nottingham Trent’s Student Union on 8th October with their 2018 show Harry & Chris Save The World. Impact caught up with former World Poetry...

“We’re in the dressing room opposite The Fall”. The interview with Sleaford Mods is momentarily broken as Lia from Fat White Family leans in to have a chat with his mates. Both acts are at the forefront of a new wave in music which is leaving established bands thrown...