Poetry

Lately, it feels like the world is one endless bad news cycle. Joshua Idehen isn’t here to pretend otherwise but instead brings humour, warmth

Born in London, raised in Luton, and made in Nottingham, Davina Songbird is a powerful voice on East Midlands stages. She is a singer,

Nadeem Din-Gabisi is an award-winning poet, visual artist and filmmaker who has cemented his unique voice as one the of the most thought-provoking new

Come with your poems and stories, your wisdom and worries, your joy and your rage. Everyone is welcome to share and listen. Poems related

Interactive poetry trail. Find the Wordbox Birdboxes nesting in the trees among the pixie shacks, fairy houses and untrodden trails. Push the button, pick

Luke Wright is a poet and performer who’s spent over 25 years taking sharp, funny, big-hearted writing to theatres, festivals, pubs and village halls

Tyrone Lewis is a pop-culture powerhouse of a poet. He’s been crowned UK Poetry Slam Champion, Roundhouse Poetry Slam Champion, Axis Poetry Slam Champion

Sophia Lucia is an experimental poet, performer, and musician. She is based out of Chicago, USA & Paris, FR. She makes hypnotic and chaotic

Naomi is a spoken word performer and theatre maker, celebrating rebellion and revelling in rage whilst maintaining a healthy preoccupation with the eroticism of

Sam Browne is a spoken word poet from Southend, Essex, who originally set out to be a stand-up comedian until he realised all his

Rick Dove is an award winning, black, queer, and disabled writer and activist from South London. Widely published since 2016, Rick has two full

Kate Ireland (she/her) is a writer, performer and artist from Glasgow, now based in Manchester. Kate creates work across performance, theatre, music and community