Ash Dickinson at Lincolnshire Poacher

Date: Sat 11th Oct
Time: 20:00

ASH DICKINSON
Saturday 11th October 2008
The Lincolnshire Poacher, 161-163 Mansfield Road, Nottingham
Doors 8pm, Show 8.30pm
£5/£3

Stand-up poetry in quick-fire rhymes and offbeat lines as multiple slam champion Ash Dickinson swaps places with the sea, takes the moon to a children's party and has his fridge fall in love with him. "Brilliantly surreal invention..fabulous poems" - Edinburgh Evening News. "Dickinson proves not only to be an incredibly gifted poet, but also a great comedian with a sharp eye for social commentary" - Winnipeg Free Press. "Impressive wordplay" - The Times. "Ash Dickinson is a performance poet for the Lost Generation. If you haven't seen him, you haven't seen performance poetry" - Federation of Writers (Scotland)

www.ashdickinson.com
www.myspace.com/ashdickinson

Ash Dickinson is a writer, poet and comedy performer.

The 2007 Edinburgh Poetry Slam Champion, Ash also won the inaugural Museum of Scotland Slam in 2005 and the 2008 Cheltenham Slam. He supported the World Poetry Slam Champion on his UK tour, and in May 2007 he came through the Scottish heats of the BBC Radio 4 National Slam, eventually finishing in the top 8 in the UK.

He had a 4-Star rated one man show- "Electric Dandyland" at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the following year formed part of Scotland's renowned Big Word Performance Poetry during its run at the Edinburgh Comedy Rooms. In the summer of 2006 Ash took his revamped, but again 4-Star rated, one man show to Canada where he performed at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival and a number of venues in Toronto.

Ash has also performed in Australia- including a regular run at a comedy club in Adelaide- the United States, and New Zealand. Having hosted his own weekly poetry night in Wellington he was invited to perform at the 2002 New Zealand Festival.

He has played shows throughout the UK, including feature appearances at Express Excess, The Poetry Shack, Brixtongue, Bang Said The Gun (all London), The Stand Comedy Club, the Bristol Poetry Festival, the Glasgow Comedy Festival, Big In Falkirk, Aberdeen Wordfringe and performing pioneering one man shows.

Ash has been published in a number of newspapers, magazines and poetry presses. He has compared busy cabarets and music nights; performed at private parties, supported bands and also runs poetry workshops in schools. His media appearances include BBC Radio and Sweet TV.

www.ashdickinson.com

www.myspace.com/ashdickinson

"Brilliantly surreal invention.. fabulous poems" - Edinburgh Evening News

"Impressive wordplay" - The Times

"A very cool combination of rap, rhyme, repetition and wry wit...Dickinson proves not only to be an incredibly gifted poet, but also a great comedian with a sharp eye for social commentary" - Winnipeg Free Press

"Ash Dickinson is a Performance Poet for the Lost Generation. If you haven't seen him, you haven't seen performance poetry" - Federation Of Writers (Scotland)

"Amazing..this poet wields words like wicked weapons, his vivid surrealism now overlaid with darker matter..and still those remarkable rhyme forms to astound your senses" - www.wordfringe.co.uk

"Weird and wonderful...refreshingly unpretentious with an obtuse humour and seemingly effortless zeal...off-kilter, imaginative (yet) lucid, profound and surprisingly poignant" - Three Weeks

"Accessible and engaging...frequently self-effacing...a personable and easy going performer..a skilled writer, he tackles the big subjects like love, identity and nature and handles it all with skill and finesse" CBC Radio, Canada

"Delicious stand-up, theatre and rap mash-up...a dizzying clogful of pickled lunacy" - Venue

"Smartly stripping his set of the pompousness and pretensions inherent in performance poetry it is better described as stand-up comedy with a rhyme scheme...for non-fans of performance poetry, prepare to have your minds changed...go see this show!" - The Jenny Revue

Lincolnshire Poacher

161-163 Mansfield Road
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 3FR

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Ash Dickinson

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