Danny Chivers

Never one to shy away from controversy, Danny’s unique brand of comic slam poetry tackles subjects such as climate change, the war on terror, and world domination by militant pigeons. He believes that humour, sarcasm, dodgy rhymes and pop culture references are all suitable weapons in the fight against global injustice and against people who compare him to a fictional teenage wizard. Danny became Oxford Hammer & Tongue Slam Poetry Champion in 2007 and in 2009 reached the semi-finals of the BBC Radio 4 National Poetry Slam. He has performed at festivals, comedy nights, benefit gigs, youth clubs, conferences, campfires, Borough Council award ceremonies and in front of lines of riot police around the UK. He was meant to be on trial in Nottingham in January 2011 over an eco-protest but then the case collapsed due to the shenanigans of an undercover cop, so he might be willing to spill the beans on that whole bizarre affair too. You can find him online at http://adaisythroughconcrete.blogspot.com/ and www.myspace.com/dannychivers and can also follow him on Twitter:

@chiversdanny

His new book, "The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change" (published by New

Internationalist) is a handy pocket guide to the whole climate issue, using friendly, jargon-free language (along with a smattering of humour, poetry and unusual analogies) to explain the latest science, politics, solutions, technologies, barriers, activism, and where we go from here.

You can read a free sample online and get hold of a copy at

http://www.newint.org/books/no-nonsense-guides/climate-change-2011

"Shop a Scrounger", anti-cuts and corporate tax-dodging poem produced by Pete Speller and Zoe Broughton: http://vimeo.com/17295443

"Lifestyle Choice" live at the G20 protests in London:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQcGPcXpCYY&feature=related

"A Modest Proposal" by Tenner Films, on location at Dungeness nuclear power station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqob1yIFwI&feature=related

"Consumed", live from the 2010 Edinburgh Climate Camp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G-4XpRDO9I

"Feisty, thought-provoking and politically rounded...a seriously funny rising star" - New Internationalist Magazine “Half master of witty banter, half eerily reasonable prophet of environmental Armageddon” – Radio Foreplay “A star in the making” – John Rivers, Fifth Estate