Past Slams

October 2009:

Alexander James, a blogger who visited the slam from Toronto, writes here about how this October’s slam changed his world:

I’m not trying to sound sappy or sentimental at all, and I’m certainly not trying to play grab-ass with an artistic community I haven’t been involved with in years, but believe me when I say the performances I saw were outstanding.  If I had known what I was getting into I would have prepared more adequately to write this post by interviewing performers and getting all sorts of links together, but I was genuinely shocked by the quality of the works and their readings.  This is an extremely talented group of people who consistently defied my expectations by writing moving, funny, engaging pieces and presenting them in a very honest way – I know I keep calling this “performance poetry” but the sense I got was there was very little in the way of “performance” going on.  These people made me believe in what they were saying, and for people dealing with a guy who went in categorically hating poetry, that’s a pretty impressive feat.

June 2009:

thank you so much to everyone involved in making the london poetry slam finals the incredible event it was: to the volunteers who helped out every step of the way; the judges who took pleasure in their often difficult task; our host white noise machine who kept us all laughing with his witty repartee; shihan, our absolutely phenomenal feature; all of the poets (including our sacrifice) who poured their hearts out on stage; and most of all, to all of you who came out for a standing-room-only, sweaty-hot poetry event on a friday night!!!

for those of you who may have missed it, london’s team heading to victoria for the canadian national slam in november is: steph sly, elyse maltin, kyra harris, jeff drennan, and alternate char. video of the finals will be posted on youtube shortly, so join the facebook group and stay tuned for details!

Scores:

FINALS
MAY
1 Steph 28.85
1 *Kyra 27.55
2 Elyse 27.80
2 Beth Anne 27.45
3 Kyra 27.25
3 Matthew 25.45
4 Jeff 27.10
4 Jeff 25.30
5 Char 26.95
5 Amanda P. 24.40
6 Jenny 26.85
6 Melissa 23.70
7 Laura 26.40
7 Daniel 23.30
8 Richard 24.25
8 Robyn 22.70




9 Sileny 22.50




10 Nik 18.80
APRIL
MARCH
1 Beth Anne 27.05
1 Laura 27.80
2 Kyra 26.85
2 Char 26.00
3 Laura 25.5
3 Kuma 25.20
4 Jeff 25
4 Jenny 25.10
5 Jenny 24.7
5 Richard 25.10
6 Richard 24.4
6 Jeff 24.00
7 David 2 21.9
7 Katie 2.30
FEBRUARY
JANUARY
1 Elyse 26.55
1 Steph 28.05
2 Justin 24.25
2 Elyse 28.00
3 Ahmed 25.15
3 Kuma 25.10
4 Mike 22.70
4 Paul 23.30
5 Christine 22.30
5 Merissa 22.90
6 Anastassia 21.60
6 Jeff 22.90




7 Ahmed 22.90




8 Anastassia 21.90
DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
1 Steph 25.70
1 Steph 27.30
2 Laura 25.30
2 Char 25.90
3 Char 24.55
3 Kyra 23.60
4 Bill 21.20
4 Abena 49.60
5 Anatastassia 21.10
5 Mike 23.70
6 Mike 20.50



7 Mitch 17.00



OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
1 Steph 27.85
1 Elyse 27.35
2 Kyra 27.65
2 David 1 27.15
3 Laura 25.85
3 Steph 26.80
4 Denardo 25.55
4 Laura 26.80
5 Jeff 24.60
5 Beth Anne 26.30
6 Merissa 24.20
6 Jeff 24.80
7 Christine 24.00
7 Kuma 24.50




8 Merissa 22.50
SEASON STANDINGS (includes only those who slammed twice)
1 *Elyse 27.3
2 *Steph 27.14
3 *Beth Anne 26.93
4 *Kyra 26.41
5 *Laura 26.25
6 *Char 25.48
7 Kuma 24.93
8 Jenny 24.9
9 Richard 24.75
10 Jeff 24.43
11 Ahmed 24.03
12 Merissa 23.2
14 Mike 22.3
13 Anastassia 21.53

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