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50 countries. 50 current National Poetry Slam Champions. 1 June 2018.

It's a family, more than anything. The quality of slam always comes down to how you frame it. The point is not the points, the point is the people.
​- Ben Fagan, Motif Poetry
All information current as at 1 June 2018 NZT. Photos will be refreshed on 1 June 2019 NZT. If you run your country's most nationally representative poetry slam and we've missed you, please get in touch. If you have any corrections, issues, or if you have any information to add, please let us know here. Wherever possible, all photos chosen have been used by the individual to represent themselves online, normally as a profile picture. We haven't linked to any poet's personal facebook profiles but can do on request. All poets featured are 18+ and arranged alphabetically by country. Frames are random, except France.
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Photo credit: Jesse Oliver

Jesse
​Oliver 🇦🇺

Australia
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Photo credit: Agnes Maier

Agnes
​Maier 🇦🇹

Austria
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Photo credit: Lisette Ma Neza

Lisette Ma Neza 🇧🇪

Belgium

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Photo credit: Isabella Puente

Isabella Puente 🇧🇷

Brazil
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Photo credit:​ ​Minoungou Nathanaël

Minoungou Nathanaël 🇧🇫

Burkina Faso
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Photo credit: ​Huguette Izobimpa

​Huguette Izobimpa 🇧🇮

Burundi

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Photo credit: ​Myname Vainqueur

Myname Vainqueur 🇨🇲

Cameroon
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Photo credit: ​Patrick Shannon

Lady Vanessa Cardona 🇨🇦

Canada
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Photo credit: ​Guer2mo

Guer2mo
🇨🇬

Congo

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Photo credit: ​Bazare Guy

Bazare
​Guy 🇨🇮

Côte d'Ivoire
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Photo credit: ​zadarski.hr

Roberto Vodanović Čopor 🇭🇷

Croatia
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Photo credit: ​Dr. Filipitch

Dr. Filipitch 🇨🇿

Czech Republic

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Photo credit: ​Sara Hauge

Sara
​Hauge 🇩🇰

Denmark
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Photo credit: Jaak Känd

Jaak
​Känd 🇪🇪

Estonia
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Photo credit: Frej Haar

Frej
​Haar 🇪🇺

Europe

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Photo credit: ​Lassi Kalleinen

Lassi Kalleinen 🇫🇮

Finland
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Photo credit: Jérôme Pinel

Jérôme
​Pinel 🇫🇷

France
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Photo credit: Anonym

Anonym 🇬🇦

Gabon

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Photo credit: Alex Burkhard​

Alex Burkhard 🇩🇪

Germany
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Photo credit: Péter Mészáros​

Péter Mészáros 🇭🇺

Hungary
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Photo credit: Jane Tonra

Nuala Leonard 🇮🇪

Ireland

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Photo credit: Amit Tsafrir

Amit
​Tsafrir 🇮🇱

Israel
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Photo credit: Bruno Giovetti

Bruno Giovetti 🇮🇹

Italy
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Photo credit: 三木悠莉​

三木悠莉 🇯🇵

Japan

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Photo credit: Kikete F.M.​

Kikete F.M. 🇰🇪

Kenya
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Photo credit: Vismantė Ruzgaitė​

Marius Povilas Elijas Martynenko 🇱🇹

Lithuania
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Photo credit: Игор Трпчески​

Игор Трпчески 🇲🇰

Macedonia

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Photo credit: Rakotonirainy Zafimahaleo Barry Benson​

Rakotonirainy Zafimahaleo Barry Benson 🇲🇬

Madagascar
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Photo credit: Ricardo Ventura​

Ricardo Ventura 🇲🇽

Mexico
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Photo credit: Ozan Aydogan​

Ozan Aydogan 🇳🇱

Netherlands

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Photo credit: Joseph O'Sullivan

Daisy Lavea-Timo 🇳🇿🌿

New Zealand
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Photo credit: Sofie Frost​

Sofie Frost​ 🇳🇴

Norway
​Nordic Slam
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Photo credit: Alberto Salazar​

Alberto Salazar 🇵🇪

Peru

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Photo credit: Aleksandra Kanar​

Aleksandra Kanar 🇵🇱

Poland
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Photo credit: Luís Perdigão​

Luís Perdigão 🇵🇹

Portugal
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Photo credit: Rally and Broad

Sam
​Small 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆

Scotland
​Coupe du Monde

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Photo credit: Martin Helcman​

Martin Helcman 🇸🇰

Slovakia
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Photo credit: Mišel 'Amo' Ristov​

Mišel 'Amo' Ristov 🇸🇮

Slovenia
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Photo credit: @csofpoetry​

Thuthukani Myeza 🇿🇦

South Africa

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Photo credit: Margalida Followthelida​

Margalida Followthelida 🇪🇸

Spain
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Photo credit: Mattias Hammarström​

Mattias Hammarström 🇸🇪

Sweden
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Photo credit: Kilian Ziegler​

Kilian
​Ziegler 🇨🇭

Switzerland

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Photo credit: Mesko

Mesko 🇹🇬

Togo
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Photo credit: Deneka Thomas​

Deneka Thomas 🇹🇹

Trinidad and Tobago
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Photo credit: Usaama Minhas​

Usaama Minhas 🇬🇧

United Kingdom

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Photo credit: Arvind Nandakumar​

Arvind Nandakumar 🇺🇸

United States of America
​Individual World Poetry Slam
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Photo credit: FreeQuency​

FreeQuency 🇺🇸

United States of America
​Women of the World Poetry Slam
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Photo credit: La France au Vietnam​

Pham Thi Phuong Thao 🇻🇳

Vietnam

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Photo credit: MessenJah​

MessenJah 🇿🇲

Zambia
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Photo credit: ​Madzitatiguru

Madzitatiguru 🇿🇼

Zimbabwe
 

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