Hammer & Tongue Present... Amber Tamblyn

Hammer and Tongue promotes some of the best spoken word the world has to offer and engages diverse communities, promoting open poetry slams and developing new artists. In the past four years H&T has branched out from its original incarnation at the Brickworks in Oxford, to both Brighton and London, and now offers established poets a chance to tour all three cities and slammers a poetry-hungry audience to wow.

The legendary H&T Camden poetry slam is back in March with the very best in live literature for your delectation.

You are very welcome to take part in the open slam - just sign upon the door from 7pm. Each poet has 3 mins to wow the audience with their own original material.

The winner gets a place in the Camden 2015 slam final later this year and a chance of representing Camden at the National Final, which last year took place at the Royal Albert Hall.

AMBER TAMBLYN
Amber Tamblyn was born and raised in Venice, California and is a 3rd generation Californian. She has been a writer and actress since the age of 9. She has been nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award for her work in television and film. In 2007 she won the Locarno Film Festival award for Best Actress for her work in the film Stephanie Daley, in which she starred opposite Tilda Swinton. She most recently appeared in FOX's television show HOUSE and in Danny Boyle's critically acclaimed film, 127 Hours opposite James Franco. She will next appear in Horton Foote's Main Street opposite Colin Firth. Amber is probably most recognized for her work as Joan on the CBS television program Joan of Arcadia.

Her work has been published in New York Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Pank Magazine, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Interview and others. She is the Executive Producer of The Drums Inside Your Chest, an annual poetry concert that showcases outstanding contemporary poets (Thedrumsinsideyourchest.com). She is the co-founder of the nonprofit Write Now Poetry Society which works to build an audience for unique poetry events (Writenowpoets.org) Her second book of poetry and prose Bang Ditto (Manic D. Press) was published in the Fall of 2009 and was an Independent Best Seller. She currently writes for The Poetry Foundation and is a poetry reviewer for Bust Magazine. Currently, she is working on a collection of persona poems accompanied with paintings by Marilyn Manson about child star actresses who grew up into virtual unknowns and died young. She lives in New York City with her betrothed, comedian David Cross.

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