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Contains Strong Language
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28 – 30 Sep 2018, Hull
91Èȱ¬ Contains Strong Language 2018
Hull, 28-30 September 2018
Contains Strong Language 2021
Looking for this year's edition of the UK's biggest poetry and spoken word festival of new work? CSL heads to Coventry in September...
23 Sep 2021
The Best of CSL 2018 - Part 1
A handy summary of what went on at the 2018 festival of poetry, performance and new writing
Clips : the story so far
A few audio and video highlights from CSL 2017 & 2018
Unwritten: The Verb
Performance and interviews from the live recording at CSL and Birmingham Literature Festival - with footage from the origin of the project in Jamaica
Words First - 1Xtra
91Èȱ¬ Radio 1Xtra celebrates spoken word!
Highlights
Doctors celebrates World Poetry Day
A special World Poetry Day episode, Rhyme and Reason, features Midlands poet Joe Cook.
Listen to Front Row
Sean Scully's documentary A Northern Soul, Vicky Foster's one woman performance Bathwater and Tanya Shirley with discussion of Caribbean poetry.
Listen to The Verb
The Verb at the 'Contains Strong Language' festival in Hull with Jackie Kay, Gruff Rhys, Louise Wallwein, Joe Hakim and work inspired by 'Palgrave's Golden Treasury'.
Listen to The Echo Chamber on Radio 4
Jacob Polley, Caroline Bird, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Mary Jean Chan share poems about beginnings, arrivals and coming of age.
The Echo Chamber collection
Extracts from Paul Farley's conversations with poets
Features
The Verb - 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3
Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance
The Cultural Frontline - 91Èȱ¬ World Service
Making the Caribbean soldiers of World War One visible through verse - with poet Tanya Shirley.
Photos from Contains Strong Language 2018
Some pictorial highlights from the 2018 festival
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