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Week in Books: Saucy spoken word to Teenage Kicks

Jon Davis | Friday 4 February, 2011 18:27

Velvet Tongue – 7pm Sunday 6th February
Velvet Tongue celebrates the erotic, the hot, the sweet, the viscous, the carnal, the sexy, the racy, the provocative, the lustful, the … well, you get the picture. So, if you fancy some ear titillation get down and dirty to this poetry night.
10 Gales, Gales Gardens, E2 0EJ. Tickets £3

Teenage Kicks – 6.30pm Sunday 6th February
Seven writers, including the illustrious Tobias Hill, Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith, join comedian Doc Brown (not the inventor from Back to the Future) to discuss the theme of adolescent shenanigans. Expect an evening of bad haircuts, first dates and general self-importance.
Tricycle, 269 Kilburn High Rd, London, NW6 7JR. Tickets £12

Freshstyles – 7.30pm Tuesday 8th February
Poets, MCs and Lyricists hit Favela Chic for this riotous spoken word night. DJ’s Angry Sam and Curious host and hip-hop, Dub, Soul breaks follow untill 1am.
Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern St, London, EC2A 3HZ. Free

Apple & Snakes – 8pm Wednesday 9th February
Blake Morrison, the novelist, poet, playwright and all round good chap, leafs through his back catalogue at this established poetry night. There will also be sets from incisive Irish poet Aoife Mannix, and majestic chansonnier Philip Jeays.
Soho Theatre, 21 Dean St, London, W1D 3NE. Tickets £8

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