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Notching up the cultural roadkill with ambulance-chasing poetics and stunning visuals, Poetry Boyband Aisle16 return with twelve white-knuckle micro-lectures on the achingly hip subject of contemporary verse. It’s Edutainment, innit.
Poetry Boyband takes previously unthinkable thoughts – like chartering an expedition across Henry Miller’s face and explaining why Alastair Campbell is a poet (it’s to do with love) – and uploads them directly to your brain.
“I had forgotten how much I like poetry and how wondeful it is to hear.” Sandi Toksvig, Sunday Telegraph
“The most ingenious PowerPoint presentation ever.” Independent on Sunday
“Very Funny. All of it is slickly delivered and tautly choreographed.” The Evening Standard
“Brilliantly ironic … one of the funniest things you’ll see.” The List ****
“I heard mutterings of ‘they’re just Boyzone with poems.’ But 200 years ago they were saying that about Keats and Shelley.” The Times
“A new scabrous high” Time Out *****
TIME OUT CRITICS’ CHOICE OF THE YEAR 2005