POETRY CAN F*CK UP THE TRUTH


Produced and Presented By The Cockpit & BrainFruit

POETRY CAN F*CK UP THE TRUTH

A Ground Breaking Season Of Poetry, Protest & Provocation, Built Around The Work Of Arch-polemicist, Heathcote Williams.

With Music, Guest Performers, Film & Ritual Money Burning.

29th May, & 23rd October

TICKETS: £15 / £12

Last year saw the success of a national tour, Poetry Can F*ck Off, performed by The Poetry Army, a loose knit collective that stages guerrilla presentations Heathcote Williams’ work. As a spin-off from that, we have three completely new shows, drawing on the same idea of weaving Williams’ words with guest performers, music and visual wonders to explore new topics and provoke new thinking. (The First show was in May.. but there are still 2 left!)

When Brainfruit artistic director and seasoned performer, Roy Hutchins began his daily visits to Brighton Occupy in 2011, he did what he does best - rouse the crowds with the words of radical poet, Heathcote Williams.
​Williams, known for his idiosyncratic documentary/investigative poetry style, was in turn inspired by Hutchins’ activism to reflect on the role of poetry in all political uprisings, and POETRY CAN F*CK OFF was born.

Based on POETRY CAN F*CK OFF , this Cockpit series is conceived and compiled by Dave Wybrow and Daisy Campbell.

In collaboration with Roy Hutchins.  Convened and scripted by Daisy Campbell