Is hitch-hiking dead? Is poetry dead? Performance poet Catherine Brogan is trying to find out. She’s hitching to four performances in four days, taking with her two hitch-hiking novices, a film crew who’ll be pod- and video-casting her exploits online, along with interviews with and performances from the writers she meets along the way.

Mon 23 May
RAW @ Contact Theatre, Manchester - free open mic for poets and MCs, a fusion of hip hop, spoken word and poetry.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=223944980952221

Tue 24 May
Inky Fingers premier poetry event at The Forest Café, Bristo Place, Edinburgh 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109075565847352
http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com/

Wed 25 May
Monosyllabic @ Mono Cafe Bar, Glasgow
http://www.monocafebar.com/index.php?m=event&c=view&id=27%3A360 

Thur 26 May
Stand up Poets, Meercat hotel, Cumnock, outside Glasgow
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=226617717352551 

A web-episode from the road will go up on Catherine’s website, www.catherinebrogan.com in the poetry hitch section. You can find out how far she’s got, if she’ll make the show and get a taste of what the poetry scene is like in the three cities she visits. 

You can also follow the journey on Catherine’s Facebook, Twitter and You Tube. 
www.catherinebrogan.com
www.facebook.com/catherine.brogan
Twitter: catherinebrogan