"Slamming is funky
Slamming is fun
Slamming is for everyone
Slam poetry combines writing with drama, presentation and public speaking, to make poetry dynamic, accessible and fun." (Stu)
'A "bare knuckle poetry slam". Wow, that sounds so, like, edgy! Sure knocks the spots of extreme ironing and pro-celebrity macrame.
It needs the skills of a John Cooper-Clarke to really rip the pretentious tits off such an absurd concept.' (Gervase)...yes - I think he was mentioned and the winner - with material something like your's - was passionate, animated, modern-Americanish, and swore like a bullocky, as Stu's quote (from someone?) suggests.
And the night was minus any such time-honoured toast as - "the roast is our boast" (Brother)!...but, having been knocked-out, 7 votes to 3, by quite an attractive Rasta and her poem of lllllllove, will WAV turn up to suchlike again, and give readings of poems such as "A Bayswater Bedsit" (43) and "Global Regulationism" (105), yes...