SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This

By: Nikita Gill, Nikita Gill - editor

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

It's time to reclaim poetry.

Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene. Empowering, inspiring and often hilarious, SLAMs are a platform for well-known and emerging talent from all walks of life where every style of poetry has a home.

With poets such as Raymond Antrobus, Sophia Thakur and Dean Atta guest starring alongside up-and-coming poets, this is the perfect introduction to world of modern poetry. Each poet will introduce their poem, tell you a little bit about themselves and give you a tip for preparing brilliant performance poetry.

This programme is performed by Nikita Gill and the poets.

Critic reviews

SLAM was one of the best poetry collections I’ve read in a long time. With some poems leaving me in tears and others imparting feelings of joy. (Jaspreet Kaur, award-winning poet and author of Brown Girl Like Me)

A life-affirming and transformative collection, curated by a huge talent (Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars)

Buy for your teenager, buy for yourself – basically buy a copy for everyone you know and introduce them to the incredible talent of voices that urgently need to be heard. (Sarah Dawson)