ALISON BRUMFITT REVIEW

Alison Brumfitt is having a great Year. She recently won the prestigious
Swindon Poetry Slam, and featured on Saturday Live on Radio Four just two
weeks before appearing for Word Up in the Cellar Bar.

Alison treated us to a highly varied programme of her work exploring the
daily frustrations we face in our lives – the food we eat, the cars we
drive, and the countless pressures we face to conform – subjects we can all
relate to you.

Then she delivered a poem on Anglo-American politics, and the ‘special
relationship’ which resonated so clearly with the audience that you could
have heard a pin drop. A great entertainer, displaying both wit and depth
in her themes, and masterful use of rhythm and the spoken word. A hugely
successful night.

The evening was well attended, and, as ever, the floor poets were also
excellent. April Greenhalgh won the competition with the most original
entry on the topic “I don’t care about your car.”

Lion Sharks and Prolifics provided interval entertainment, their first time
in the cellar bar. Excallent wordsmiths in their own right they gave the
evening an added new dimension.

This evening was part funded by the Wales Academi.
Prizes were very kindly donated by Pages bookshop.