Sadie Davidson

Sadie Davidson is a multi-slam winning poet from Essex.

She has published two collections – Tales from the Estate (2017) and the Poverty Guide Handbook (2019) – through Whisky and Beards Publishing, as well as recording a spoken word album – Council House and Silent (2018) – which was released through the Spoken Label.

She has won several slams, including the Margate Bookie, You’re Bard! 9, the Kent Poetry Championship, and the Creative Thingy Whatsit online slam. She was also a finalist in both the Hammer and Tongue UK Championship and the Farago UK Championship in 2019.

From 2017-2018 she hosted Dangerous Poetry open mic in Southend, attracting high profile poets such as Alex Vellis, the RepeatBeat Poet and Alex Agman Gora to headline. She also hosted the first ever Southend Poetry Slam at the 2019 Southend Festival, curated the Essex Poetry Collective Show in 2018 (headlined by Hammer and Tongue UK 2018 Champion Usaama Minas), and her debut play, Bare Lies, premiered at the same festival (2018).

Testimonies

“I bore witness to the poetical powerhouse that is Sadie Davidson, in a twenty five minute spoken word set that bit with lightning like fury and machine gun delivery. This was edgy and dangerous poetry..”

Olmo Lazarus, Channel 4-featured poet / Poetry InCommotion

“This knocked me sideways. This was about something. Something real. It’s strong stuff. Just like poetry ought to be and – sometimes used to be”

Anthony Haden – Guest, British Socialite and journalist.

“Sadie Davidson should be on everyone’s ‘must see’ list. Wise, funny and extremely clever. She puts many ‘contenders to the throne’ in the spoken word shade. The best thing to come out of Essex since Depeche Mode.”

Ralph Dartford, A Firm of Poets

Sadie is a multi-published author, signed to Whisky and Beards Publishing, and has produced her own spoken word album. You can purchase them by clicking on the images.

Council House and Silent (2017)

Council House and Silent” is the raw and unsettling debut spoken word album from urban performance poet and poetry slam champion Sadie Davidson. 

Recorded at home in her airing cupboard after spending months in a hostel with her partner and two small children, “Council House and Silent” is a truthful, heartbreaking and highly provocative window in to life in Britain’s underclass. 

“Council House and Silent” offers more than simply “Poverty Porn’ -beneath the gritty realism and rage at a failing system is an inspiring message of fulfilment, resilience, and the reminder that “you can get out if you fight”. 

According to Spoken word promoters, Sadie Davidson “Bites with lightning like fury and machine gun delivery” and has been described as “An absolute spoken word beast” as well as “Furious and unstoppable”. 

Tales from the Estate (2018)

Tales From The Estate is Sadie Davidsons first poetry collection. It contains poems which describe her childhood in a high rise council flat, her thoughts on “Broken Britain”, and her fury at the exclusion and isolation of the lower social classes. Many of the poems in Tales From The Estate were written while Sadie was homeless, and living with her family in a hostel.

The Poverty Guide Handbook (2019)

Join Sadie Davidson as she unravels the world of the underclass, the reality of life on the breadline and how government policy has let all this happen. Combining Sadie’s trademark rapid-fire verse alongside personal, researched and insightful essays, The Poverty Guide Handbook

Sadie can deliver workshops and talks on a variety of topics, including how to write slam poetry and writing as a tool in addiction recovery.

She has worked with Green Shoes Arts, Brentwood County High School, and HARP Southend among other organisations.

To book Sadie to talk or deliver a workshop with your organisation, please email sadiedavidson@gmail.com