Chloe Poems
Chloe Poems first appeared in
"The Beige Experience" - a Liverpool based cabaret
double act in the late eighties. Born again, a fully rounded
impassioned visionary in gingham in 1993, Chloe has sinced
followed her emotional mission to make the world a better
place.
Chloe has toured nationally over the last 7 years with
her full length theatre shows, Knockers, Chloe Poems Healing
Roadshow, Uinversal Rentboy, Kinky and Me. Frequently hits
at the Edinburgh festival, these shows toured up and down
the country, from Aberdeen to Portsmouth.
In 2000 Chloe finished a year as resident Artist at the
Green Room, Manchester's centre for performing arts, she
has become the champion of the Manchester poetry scene.
Slam Bam Thank you Ma'am, her regular poetry slam helped
establish her as the queen of performance poetry in the
city, and enabled her to encourage other poets to give it
ago. 2000 also saw the collaboration with performer The
Divind David in The Ugli Sisters, selling out at both the
Royal Exchange, Manchester and the ICA.
Her anthology Universal Rentboy was published in 2000 by
The Bad Press and i s available in all good book shops.
The poetry of Chloe Poems is coated in audacity. It is rare
that a collection can be described as groundbreaking with
any real sense of authority or truth. For a poet to capture
the empathy of others is sadly rare, but to achieve this
feat whilst ensnaring those thoughts most entertain but
seldom express, is almost unique. In defiantly unshockable
times, Ms Poems manages to make jaws drop with remarkable
ease. One would expect little less from Britain's first
gay socialist transvestite poet and radical agenda bender.
Described by The Times as "so filthy it verges on
the educational"; by The Independent as "all the
pugnaciousness of a prize fighter"; and by Gay Times
as "a massive rising star of enormous talent",
- outrage has rarely been so perfectly crafted and delivered
by such a deliciously gingham-clad glove.
During all of this Chloe was hosting the leftfield 'Club
Brenda' with Manchester DJ Jayne Compton, a night of performance
poetry and music. Guest included The Divine David, Tracey
Elizabeth, Valerie, Rosie Lugosi, Veba and Fiona Bowker.
From these nights Switchflicker was borned and Chloe released
her first single 'The Queen Sucks Nazi Cock'.
First performed at the Northern Quarter Festival, Chloe
found herself scarpering from the police who were looking
for a public order charge. Inspired by a previous poem "WHORE"
to celebrate 100 years of the Queen Mother, this track is
written through with the attitude of 76’ 78’ Punk,
embraced here by Britain's most eminent gay socialist poet.
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Review |
The Queen sucks nazi cock was a jubilee favourite of Andrew
Weatherall " Looking for something to play to spoil the
Jubilee celebrations being enjoyed by your Daily Mail reading
neighbours or as last tune of the night shortly before being
sacked from your DJ job at the Young Conservatibe's Disco?
Then this is for you. Good work Miss peoms, if you performed
this on television a whole new generation of fat truck drivers
would kick their TV screens in."
Andrew Weatheral
Website July 2002
