POETRY ISLAND FTR – Jez Prins

Special Guest: Jez Prins

Half his life ago, Jez Prins was hurriedly sent on stage to perform his poetry to hundreds of drunk students because John Cooper Clarke was too unwell to leave his dressing room.

This sounds like the unlikely starting point for a gilded narrative of success and achievement, but it’s not. Subsequent years saw some more poetry, three years of stand-up comedy, a handful of sometimes-represented but ultimately-unpublished novels and what, on a good day, looks like a living made from monkeying around with words.

Jez recently went back to performance poetry and is loving it.

Since October last year he’s done slams, open mics, full sets and headline slots in Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay and Bristol, and in the next year or so hopes to go beyond the south west.

'Rapid words, quick-fire imagery, deadpan humour and laughs a-plenty! Yet also with the skill and the gravitas of a real poet, necessary and unforgiving. He makes you laugh, then grabs your heart.'
Robert Garnham, Paignton’s Mr Poetry

'Prins stands more or less immobile, perhaps picking at the neck of a beer bottle or more likely just staring at the floor, casually letting loose comic bombshells that reverberate for days after in the mind.'
Time Out magazine

'God, you were good. Thanks for the mind-pictures … Thank YOU for entertaining us! '
Mama Tokus

Doors open 7.30pm Show starts 8:00pm Tickets £6.00 – reserve your seat by contacting Ian via email: ianbeechpoetry@btinternet.com

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