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Wed 11 Nov 2008Taking pub talk to a new level
Poetry slams, where aspiring writers try to out-perform each other on stage, are capturing the attention of a new, and livelier, audience, poets at Galway's Crane Bar tell Georgina O'Halloran
YOU COULD HEAR a pin drop as the first of 11 people taking part in the poetry slam made her way purposefully to the mike. Seconds earlier, MC Brendan Murphy had welcomed a small but enthusiastic crowd to the intimate upstairs room in Galway's Crane Bar.
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