Speak Easy at the HUBS

On Tuesday night I attended the 'speak easy' event at the HUBS in order to see a housemate perform his own poetry. This was the first I had heard of the event, so I wasn't sure what to expect other than poems spoken by writers.

I was surprised and impressed by the range of performances to be seen, including two musical performances and a variety of writings of various types and tones. The prevalent genre was comedy, with a strong variety of tongue-in-cheek verse often criticising the state of affairs in the UK or commenting light-heartedly on such broad topics as the growing violence of Eastenders to the failed writing of a novel.

I found the event inspiring in the way the best poems conjured images in my mind; I couldn't help but visualise them as sequences to be placed in a film as I sat and absorbed a unique form of art. Though the event was shorter than expected due to a poor turnout, the performances remained numerous enough to provide continuing inspiration.

Though I prefer to express my own poetic notions through the medium of film, having attended the event I would definitely consider supporting it in future and engaging in a different art form altogether with my own performance.