motorcitysixty poetry competition - £1,000 prize!
Our poetry competition marks the 60th anniversary of the Motown Revue tour of the UK. In 1965 the Tamla-Motown Revue arrived in the UK for a tour of 20 cities. We are thrilled to be celebrating the prize winner of the competition with the Curzon on 7 June - get your tickets for Summer of Soul + DJ Ngaio: Clevedon LitFest here!
What was (or is) the sountrack to your weekend, your lives, your loves, your rites of passage? Perhaps you grew up in a 'motorcity' like Detroit in the USA, or Birmingham or Coventry in the UK. Maybe you were weaned on Motown - the Four Tops, The Supremes or Marvin Gaye. Were you stirred by the words of Stokely Carmichael, Dr Martin Luther King Jnr or Ossie Davis? Roll on a decade or two - maybe Motown, Reggae or 2-Tone (Jerry Dammers' vision of an English Motown) was your Friday night sound? Did you meet the love of your life dancing to the great soul and funk tracks of the seventies and eighties, or the hip hop of the nineties...
Full details here and at www.motorcitysixty.com
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