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  • Spoken Word

    01th Jun 2008Spoken Word

    A New Audiences event featuring some of the UK's most exciting poets and spoken word artists in association with Apples & Snakes
  • The artists who appeared at the event were:

    AF Harrold, a performance poet, storyteller and writer. He has appeared on BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC 4 Word of Mouth New Year Special.

    Jenny Lindsay who who The Tap Water Poetry Award in 2002, confirming her place as one of Scotland's leading performance poets. Co-runner and co-ordinator of Edinburgh's Big Word, she now performs nationally.

    Abraham Gibson, a London-born poet and storyteller. He was a member of the Brothaman Poetry Collective and the winner of The Voice Poet of the Year Award in 2002

    Stacy Makishi, an internationally renowned multi-media poet and artist. She has had many residencies, taught at universities across the UK and toured the USA and the UK.

    Lucy Clouting conducted interviews with the four performers which you can listen to here.

    Videos of the participants performing their poems can be found here

     



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