A one-off pop-up night of slam poetry in Dalston: Does it get any hipper than this?
Last night's slam poetry showcase at the pop-up Arcola Tent (a temporary off-shoot of the Arcola Theatre in Dalston) was ostensibly to celebrate the launch of Sam Berkson's new potry compilation Life in Transit. Berkson is a poet and organiser for the East London division of Hammer & Tongue, a spoken word collective. Because of Berkson's connections to the slam poetry world, the night became an excuse for som…