Details of Project - The 20-20 Poems - 20-20 Events - Voting Box

20-20 VISION - Events

Saturday September 11^th 2004

8.00pm

Studio Theatre, Bristol Old Vic

CHLOE POEMS

+ The 20-20 Vision Show featuring Peter Hunter, Fiona Hamilton, Mark Warner

Is Bristol ready for Chloe Poems?

Chloe Poems is Britain's first and foremost gay, socialist, transvestite poet and radical agenda bender. She is Hinge and Brackett's wild and wayward grand-daughter (copious amounts of sherry will be called for dear), an agent provocateur in moulon rouge drawers, a Guevara in Gingham, an impassioned visionary, quite frankly, a really rather racy sort of girl.

Her poetry is as bold as brass. It's all about sex and power and honesty and integrity and how we get lost in the perilous spaces between the shoe shop, the mirror and the cash machine.

Chloe Poems in performance is a citadel storming tour de force, shocking to some, delightful to others. She casts a glamorous spell not to seduce, beguile or deceive but to clearly expose and reveal the true nature of glamour and how it can suck the life and the spirit from you more completely than the belle dame sans merci could ever hope to do.

Described by The Times as " so filthy it verges on the educational "; by The Independent as " all the pugnaciousness of a prize fighter "; and by Gay Times as " a massive rising star of enormous talent ", - Chloe Poems brings the theatre back to the people where it belongs.

Warning: this show contains very strong language and material some might find offensive.

Plus

Bristol Poets Peter Hunter, Fiona Hamilton and Mark Warner perform poems from the 20-20 Vision Project.

The 20-20 Vision is a reading competition with a first prize of �200.

Twenty poems by twenty poets, many of whom will be performing at the Bristol Poetry Festival in October, have been chosen to represent the pleasures and power of contemporary poetry.

You can enter by logging onto the new Poetry Can Web site : www.poetrycan.co.uk

Click onto 20-20 Vision, read the poems and pick the one you like the most

Fill in the Voting Box.

If you don't want to enter online go to any Bristol Library and ask about 20-20 Vision.

Competition closes FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER.

Winners will be drawn on Sunday 10 October, 4.30pm at the Bristol Poetry Festival Launch of BEING ALIVE by Neil Astley Editor of Bloodaxe Books.

Names of Winners will appear on the Poetry Can Website and in libraries

Tickets: �5.00