Aisle16's Services To Poetry
Written, Performed and conceived by
Hicks / Stickley / Sutherland / Wright

In July 2006 the UK’s top poetry collective Aisle16 set off on a destination-less tour of motorway service stations to create a bizarre poetic travelogue of these soulless strips of consumerist hell. Is there beauty in a KFC mega bucket? Can poetry exist on the M25? And is it really better to travel hopefully than to arrive?

“It has a purity and power you never expect until it is there in front of you.” Johann Hari, The Evening Standard

Aisle16: Poetry Boyband
Written, Performed and conceived by
Hicks / Stickley / Sutherland / Wright

Notching up the cultural roadkill with ambulance-chasing poetics and stunning visuals, Poetry Boyband Aisle16 are here with twelve white-knuckle micro-lectures on the achingly hip subject of modern verse. It’s Edutainment, innit.

"A new scabrous high" * * * * * Time Out
CRITICS' CHOICE OF THE YEAR 2005

"The most ingenious PowerPoint presentation ever." Independent on Sunday

Aisle16: Powerpoint
Written, Performed and conceived by
Hicks / Sutherland / Wright

Poetry. Think you know what that is? Think again. Aisle16 take a switchblade to any pre-conceptions of poetry as a stale and inaccessible art form and highlight the stale inaccessible nonsense of corporate communication. And they’ll make you laugh whilst they’re doing it.

"Diagrams and flow charts are deployed with deadly effect to stoke up the satire. Compelling viewing for all inside and outside the corporate equation.” Critics’ Choice, Time Out