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Alex (a.k.a. Ian Barker) has been awarded “Best MK Poetry Performer” by the Monkey Kettle Poetry organisation, suggested, in part, by The Poetry Kapow slammers.

It just goes to show that threats of physical violence and the correct financial inducements do work after all.

But seriously, thanks for the thoughts and plaudits – all very humbling amongst such good company.

Alex will also be appearing on Sunday evening as part of Tongue In Chic’s second event at The Madcap Theatre, Wolverton, Milton Keynes. Doors open at 19.30, entry three pounds. The guest is the fabulous and totally unique Rachel Pantechnicon with Matthew Taylor (MMT) as featured local poet.

Alex (a.k.a. Ian Barker) performed several times in December including The Poetry Kapow, The Tin Angel in Coventry and at the new HUGELY successful Tongue in Chic Poets launch night.  So successful have these events been in attracting talent that Alex only got to read a couple of poems at each gig.  (That’s a good thing – it means LOADS of people were fighting to perform and it’s about the poetry winning and being successful, not just about Alex getting more than his five minutes of fame).  I prefer to not hog the time, even though with over 200 poems I actually have enough material to go on for several hours.  At future Tongue in Chic gigs we’re going to restrict people a lot more so that the guest poet and featured poets get more time to do their thing.

I should point out that I’m the webmaster for the Tongue In Chic Poets website www.tongueinchicpoets.co.uk so I *could* be biased but it was a very successful night and we’re all waiting impatiently for the next one.

I will be performing at “Raising the Arwen” in Northampton on 21st January and at “From Bard to Verse” in Stony Stratford on 30th January.  Please come along.  If you think poetry is some sort of navel-gazing experience with dusty-jacketed boffs and nutcases you could be in for a surprise.  Take a look at the Tongue in Chic Gallery to see what I mean!

We’re about half-way through putting up the content.

Things left to do:

• Add the rest of the poems.
• Create a put a description of each poem on the poem pages
• Add in media links for all the sound files
• Record sound files for any remaining poems (this is important – it’s good to hear them read out loud as Alex intended but it will take ages to do!)
• Add in a photo gallery
• Add in some movies – ooh!
• Add some of our favourite links

Meanwhile, have to sleep, eat and other things…

Things might break and not all work is here..yet.