Ten by Ten in Hull

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Ten by Ten has been running for three years, and in that time, the stage at the Cumberland Arms has seen an amazing breadth of work from established and new writers.

Now, as part of the Northern Spoken Word Forum, Write to Speak is proud to announce that it will be hosting the first poetry exchange between venues.

Featuring poets from both Newcastle and Hull, this will mark the first step towards helping to establish a thriving, vibrant spoken word scene throughout the North of England, with Hull Truck Theatre set to play an important role in this landmark undertaking.

Ten by Ten will feature:

Host Jeff Price - The granddaddy of the Northern performance poetry scene and founder of the legendary Poetry Vandals, he is obsessed by his failing eyesight and his daughter's inability to see that Daddy is always right.

Alfie Crow - Writer, actor and poet, Alfie’s poetry can be as cutting as a surgeon scalpel and dropped dead hilarious in the same line. No one sees the world like Alfie does.

Simma - A singer songwriter who has turned his highly turned observations on life into poetry. His first collection, 'I married the Audience ', is a best seller. He is a natural on a stage and extremely engaging.

"A big-hearted performer and a true poet of the people"
-Rod Clements, Lindisfarne

Degna Stone - Her first collection of poetry, 'Between the Floorboards', has just been published and she is a recent winner of a Northern Promise award 2010. A regular performer on the North East spoken word scene, her poems have appeared in several anthologies, locally and nationally.

Amanda Baker - A multitalented writer who uses a myriad of voices to deliver great poetry that sings across the room.

Helen Burke - Helen Burke has been writing and performing poetry for the last twenty years. She has won several poetry competitions, including the Manchester, York, Suffolk, Norwich, the Southport International (Comedy) Prize and the Ilkley Literature Performance Award. - and, in 2005 - the Ilkley Literature Performance Poetry Prize.

Plus 5 local poets from the Write to Speak Larkin25 Workshop.

To book tickets, please contact the box office at Hull Truck (01482) 323638

Price: £5.00

Time: 7:45pm