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Contains Strong Language
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Previous Years
27 – 29 Sep 2019, Hull
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Contains Strong Language 2019
Contains Strong Language 2021
Looking for this year's edition of the UK's biggest poetry and spoken word festival of new work? CSL heads to Coventry in September...
23 Sep 2021
Highlights from 3 Years in Hull
Highlights from 3 fantastic years for the Contains Strong Language poetry and spoken word festival.
CSL Photo Highlights 2019
Images taken at various events across the 2019 festival in Hull.
Love songs to local places
A special collection of poems were played out on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Local Radio for National Poetry Day.
3 Oct 2019
Rhyme and Reason: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Introducing Arts
Lemn Sissay presents a selection of short films from a new generation of artists who are inspired by poetry and the spoken word.
Contains Strong Language 2019
The three-day celebration of the spoken word in all its poetic forms returned to Hull for 2019.
Rallying Cry
Rallying Cry offers the stage to some of the country’s most outspoken artists to address the state of the nation and imagine a better tomorrow.
28 Sep 2019
Contains Strong Language 2019 events
The Mother with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic and Maxine Peake
Award-winning actress Maxine Peake performs the iconic role of Pelagea Vlassova in Mark Ravenhill’s version of Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother.
28 Sep 2019
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Humberside Introducing
On-air previews, highlights and a spoken word special featuring local poets, spoken word artists, rappers and lyricists.
A fantastic line-up of CSL events
Browse three days of spoken word performances and book free tickets.