Synopsis
The collected works, to date, of Aisle16, the most sought after poetry collective in the UK. Containing their most acerbic, cutting edge and downright hilarious verse to date, alongside iconic new artwork by Sam Ratcliffe. Live From the Hellfire Club will be the poetry book it's not embarrassing to be seen carrying. For five years Aisle16 have been the UK's brightest, brashest, best looking and most modest poetry boy band, performing at venues across the country, including Glastonbury and the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as on television programs on ITV and the BBC and winning slam after slam. Aisle16 was created for a new breed of British poetry. The Aisle16 style is a mutant hybrid of the highs and lows of modern culture: accessible, acerbic, beautiful and funny. Formed in 2000, they have fast become the most sought after spoken word collective in the UK. Now, after four years ranting, spitting , flirting and strutting at the microphones of some of the UK's most disreputable venues they've put pen to paper to produce the most exciting poetry collection of 2005. Live From the Hellfire Club will be the poetry book it's not embarrassing to be seen carrying.
It even boasts a foreword by Punk Poet Laureate John Cooper Clarke and an endorsement by Martin Newell. Live From the Hellfire Club is published by Egg Box Publishing, the UK's boldest new publishing house. It contains almost 60 of Aisle16's finest poems to date with iconic artwork by Sam Ratcliffe, whose performances on paper perfectly complement the way Aisle16's words work in print and on stage. The astute combination of barbed literature and beautifully grotesque illustration will establish Aisle16 as a serious literary force as well as the UK's most sought after live poetry act.
