Young Dawkins is the Scottish poetry slam champion. He also happens to be the University of Edinburgh's vice-principal for development.
The poetic vice principal is among those taking part in a poetry slam from 7pm this Wednesday at Banshee Labyrinth.
The event is being organised by This Collection's Claire Askew, who features on the Guardian Edinburgh literary blogosphere - which incidentally is gearing up for a raft of new additions.
Among those performing on the night are:
* Bram E Gieben of Weaponizer, featured recently on Guardian Edinburgh
* Fiona Lindsay, the Barefoot Poet
* Russell Jones, who hates poetry slams
* Mairi Campbell-Jack, most recently published in the anthology At Grand Central Station We Sat Down and Wept
* Andrew C Ferguson, a regular at Writers' Bloc
* Andrew Philip, former member of Shore Poets
* Alec Beattie, editor of Duality
* Dave Coates, who blogs on Dave Poems
Organiser Claire Askew said:
"This is not your usual slam: there will be no brownie points for shouting, no judges, and the poet with the most mates won't win automatically. This is a friendly slam - all styles, personalities and poetics are welcome."
There won't be a judging panel. Instead, performers will rate each other anonymously on score cards.
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