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UniSlam Grand Finals 2019

Pay What You Can: £11, £8 or £5

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Featuring Hollie McNish, Dizraeli & Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Watch the UK's top 4 poetry teams battle it out for the UniSlam Champions 2019 title in this electrifying event of live spoken word. Alongside the competition, we will hear headliner sets from our 3 esteemed judges: Ted Hughes Award winner and YouTube sensation, Hollie McNish; former UK Poetry Slam Champion and beatbox legend, Dizraeli; and US National Poetry Competition winner and Amazon-best-seller, Melissa Lozada-Oliva.

UniSlam is the UK National University Poetry slam, bringing together teams of the most exciting emerging poets together for a festival of live poetry performance. UniSlam also work with young people across the Midlands who face barriers in accessing literature, helping to engage them through spoken word, and support poets of all levels to develop their work and build connections with other writers.

Funded by Arts Council England

Pay What You Can

We are operating a pay what you can policy with ticket increments at £5 (subsidised), £8 (reduced) and £11 (full price) to help make the performance more accessible to young people and people from low-income backgrounds. If you are able to pay full price, please do so to help subsidise the ticket of someone who is not able to do so.