Where else but east London for London’s only free, three-round poetry slam? Bethnal Green’s much-loved Genesis cinema hosts this one on the first Thursday of every month, with a simple enough premise: poets get up, and the audience scores them (loudly) out of 10. The winner stays on, with low-scorers ruthlessly cut from proceedings. Which means the audience is boss, and the evenings get surprisingly raucous. Those taking part don’t pay, for the audience it’s a quid.
