Doors at 7, show at 8 | This is a 19+ event

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door

A night of 80s glam metal as performed by acclaimed hair metal cover band, "Feathered Spandex" featuring the songs of Whitesnake, Quiet Riot, The Scorpions, Heart, Ratt, Motley Crue and more. Plus 10 new poems inspired by the music. Bring your spandex, leggings, hairdos and be ready to bang your head to these 80's classics.

The poets performing this year are:

Magpie Ulysses

Joseph Dandurand

Tania De Rozario

Britta B.

Icy Gaze

Derek Edenshaw

Billy Tuggle

Catherine Lewis

Johnny MacRae

Neko Smart

Plus Hair Metal Trivia with a chance to win tickets to see Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Joan Jett and Poison Labour Day Weekend. Lots of other fun prizes too. Enter at the show.

This event will be broadcast on POETV

If you have questions about accessibility at the Festival visit Access Verses

Find out more about the artists performing at Verses 2022

Mashed Poetics is a night of spoken word and music mashup where a different musical theme or album is featured at every show. Mashed Poets has been going for over a decade now and we celebrated our 50th anniversary show last year at the Verses Festival of Words.

Canada’s largest alternative literary festival, Verses Festival of Words, is at it again with a 12th year of dynamic programming celebrating a broad intersection of poetic artists, including spoken word and page poets, storytellers, singer-songwriters, improvisers, and more! Come be swept away in a wave of word-bending wonder, where activism and art take centre stage. Experience the transformative power of words - written, spoken and sung.