UTTER! Evolution

'Utter!' Spoken Word presents our first show in our new home:

'UTTER!' Evolution - A natural selection of the very fittest poets and
comics to celebrate Darwin's 200th anniversary year, including: Robin
Ince, Niall O'Sullivan, Baba Brinkman, Kelley Swain, Richard Tyrone
Jones, & the AjarMic contest.

Last one 'attending' is a Creationist!


Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7:30pm - 10:30pm
£5 before 7.30pm, £10 after so get there early!
The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, east side of King's Cross
(the nearest tube & station)

Facebook event: http://bit.ly/utterevol
Contact: 07912539098 / richardtyronejones@gmail.com


Robin Ince
You've seen him at Latitude, supporting Ricky Gervais, or maybe on
Mock the Week, Skins, doing FOUR shows a day at the 2009 Edinburgh
Fringe, or his live DVD. He's won a Time Out Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Comedy and toured his brilliant night 'Book Club' night
around the UK. Militant bleeding heart liberal and botherer of
God-botherers, Robin's erudite performances are often part-comedy,
part-lecture, always entertaining and amusingly indignant.


Baba Brinkman
Won a Fringe First for his latest show 'The Rap Guide to Evolution'
and has both a B.A. Hons and an M.A. in Medieval and Renaissance
English Literature. Baba draws parallels between the worlds of hip-hop
music, genetics and literary poetry.

In the summer of 2004, Baba toured his hit show "The Rap Canterbury
Tales" to seven cities including Prague, Montreal, Edinburgh and San
Francisco. Since 2004 he has toured almost constantly worldwide.


Niall O'Sullivan
As seen on the BBC as the Wimbledon Championships' Poet-in-residence,
and host of the the Poetry cafe's long-running flagships Poetry
Unplugged and The Cellar, Niall's second book 'Ventriloquism for
Monkeys' overflows with accessible and intelligent work which explores
faith, the modern city and anthropolaelont- Paleoanthropolopo- er, ape
men.


Kelley Swain
Writer in residence at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at
Cambridge University and author of well-received poetry collection
'Darwin's Microscope' (Flambard press), using the 'lens' as a metaphor
for viewing the world with secular wonder, revealing greater meaning
in looking deeper.

"One poem cannily includes a extract from Emily Dickinson, and there
is an elegy for a father told - with an admirably Dickinsonian 'slant'
- through the mating habits of a sea turtle. Bravura!" - Anna
Woodford, Mslexia


Ajar mic: You vote to decide who wins a PAID gig and a place in the
Ajar Mic final on Nov 19th. Will it be.... Michelle Madsen, Fran
Isherwood, Ashna Sarkar or
there's a FREE SLOT! GET IN TOUCH...Bringing all your friends to vote
for you is, by the way, positively encouraged!


Plus the winner of our last ajar mic contest, MC and Hammer & Tongue
London slam finalist Charlie Dupre will also be rising to the theme!


Hosted by, and featuring a special reading by Richard Tyrone Jones
from his debut contribution to humanity's extended phenotype,
Germline: 'Often witty, sometimes unsettling and always smart' -
Edinburgh comedy award winner Tim Key. Richard shares a birthday with
Darwin. Well I'll be a monkey's uncle...