Abstract

Picture the scene – a dark stage with a single spotlight shining down on one microphone. A woman, of around 20 years old, dressed in jeans and a faded t-shirt, stands to the mic. She erupts into poetry, flooding the audience with truths and confessions, her inner most fears and societal observations. This is the art form that has taken America by storm and is cautiously finding its way into British culture – slam poetry.