Central Hall, City of Edinburgh, EH3 9BP
7.30pm, Sat 30th March 2024
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‘OUTWITH WORDS' is the culmination of a 10-week collaboration between an expanded 45 piece Tinderbox Orchestra, Loud Poets and featured artists Hannah McCooke, RJ Hunter, and ACE V!S!ON.

Tinderbox Orchestra
A mesmerising and unforgettable live show featuring some of Scotland’s most talented young musicians across genres and an international cast of professional collaborators. Bringing together rappers & singers with soaring strings, heavy brass, woodwind and a thundering back-line, they have transformed preconceptions of what an orchestra can be.

Loud Poets
Showcasing top spoken word talent – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets continue to prove that spoken word has something for everyone. Each show features Loud Poets’ classic fist-thumping, side-tickling, heart-wrenching style of spoken word! This is poetry for the masses!

The Loud Poets open mic started in February 2022 to create a space for spoken word poets to gather, share work and meet other artists.

The open mic takes place on the second and last Monday of each month from the Canons' Gait on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The event is free and open to poets of all ages and experience levels with previous performers ranging from ages 8-80 taking to the mic!

Sign up to the open mic by emailing Bex at hello@iamloud.co with ‘open mic’ in the subject line.

For updates and details click here.

An Evening of Poetry Celebrating International Women’s Day

Scottish Storytelling Centre
7.30pm, Thursday 7th March 2024
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Celebrate International Women’s Day with Loud Poets! A dazzling evening of poetry celebrating the diversity of women’s experiences, in support of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. Featuring a stellar lineup including RJ Hunter, Alice Tarbuck, Georgia Bartlett-McNeil, JL Williams, Elaine Gallagher and Jj Fadaka - plus an open mic! Co-hosted by Katie Ailes and Annie Rutherford.

This event proudly celebrates all women, including trans and intersex women, and people of all genders are warmly invited to attend. The open mic section will centre the experiences of women and Loud Poets invite women, non-binary and gender-fluid people who are comfortable in that space to perform.

Put your name in the hat for the open mic by:
SIGNING UP HERE

Loud Poets is back in 2023 with its biggest Live Season ever! Thanks to support from the National Lottery and Creative Scotland, Loud Poets is bringing you 21 unique shows over this year. 14 Spoken Word Showcases will feature top poets from across the UK, plus a Scotland-wide Slam Series will see a winner crowned at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August, receiving a £3,000 Cash Prize!

Get your tickets for the Grand Slam Final here.

Grab tickets for our Edinburgh shows at the Scottish Storytelling Centre by clicking here.

And get tickets for the rest of our shows across Scotland here.

The highly anticipated Loud Poets Grand Slam Final takes place at the prestigious Edinburgh International Book Festival on 26th August 2023. 

Having qualified through a series of Scotland-wide Slams, 12 poets compete for a £3000 prize and the title of Loud Poets Slam Champion. 

The event will take place at the Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court kicking off at 8:30 pm.

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE. 

Thank you to Creative Scotland for funding the Loud Poets 2023 Live Season, and to the Edinburgh International Book Festival for partnering with us for the Grand Slam Final. 

Host: Kevin Mclean
Music: Jack Hinks
Sacrificial Poet: Vanessa Kisuule

The 12 Slammers:
Georgia Bartlett-McNeil
Tom Bird
Susi Briggs
Natalie Jayne Clark
Gray Crosbie
Jo Gilbert
Lynsey Gilmour
Jo Hunter
Jack Hunter
Chelsie Nash
Callum O’Dwyer
Angie Strachan

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe returns to the Scottish Storytelling Centre for three shows at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

Showcasing the top spoken word talent the festival has to offer – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets continue to prove that spoken word has something for everyone.

Each show features a unique line-up and Loud Poets’ classic fist-thumping, pint-drinking, side-tickling, heart-wrenching style of spoken word! This is poetry for the masses! 

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE.

4th August, 9-10:30pm
Mark Gallie
Leyla Josephine
Stuart Kenny
Elizabeth McGeown

11th August, 9-10:30pm
Bex Bidgood
Colin Bramwell
Jonathan Kinsman
Ben Macpherson

18th August, 9-10:30pm
Katie Ailes
Jenny Foulds
Dean Tsang
Raymond Wilson

Loud Poets was bigger and better than ever in its 2022 Live Season! Thanks to support from the National Lottery and Creative Scotland Loud Poets brought you 15 unique shows with over 40 poets in 9 months. 

LOUD POETS:
2022 LIVE SEASON
ON DEMAND

You can catch up on all our Loud Poets shows from 2022 including the 9 at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh and the 6 we put on in collaboration with Scottish spoken word organisations in Aberdeen, Dumfries and Dundee. All you have to do is click here.