AAAAAAH! The Skinny Magazine has recommended my Edinburgh Fringe show in the same article as Kate Tempest, Carol Anne Duffy and Patti Smith!
“The ballsy Hannah Chutzpah is back with Asking Nicely, a lyrical lecture on politeness and consent. Bouncily conversational in style, and with plenty of laughs, you’ll feel like you’re sitting having a cuppa in a friend’s kitchen.”
*jitters with joy*
I’m not sure I have words for being mentioned in the same article as these guys. Patti Smith was probably my first poetry idol – I even reference Patti Smith in the first poem of my show, Carol Ann Duffy was one of the few poets who even the driest classroom dissection-reading couldn’t tarnish, Kate Tempest is basically the public face of the spoken word scene.
I am speechless. I am giddy. I am exhausted and waking up at silly o’clock to go to a preview gig in Newcastle curated by Apples & Snakes along with Sara Hirsch who I’ve been privileged to share a stage with twice this week, along with Jenni Pascoe, Matt MacDonald, Henry Raby, Agnes Torok and David Lee Morgan.
Edinburgh Fringe madness is kicking in, but I am surfing that wave & I’ve never been more confident or happy about what I do as an artist, or felt more embraced by the poetry community.
Big love. xxx
Hannah Chutzpah 