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Light breaches darkness every single day
It’s 10am I’m at the Kings Cross junction . Three cyclists jump red traffic lights. I have my headphones on but still I heard him. “Six people died doing that last week” said the cyclist Read more [...]
Salander at The Roundhouse: My public artwork opens Thursday.
Salander my pubic artwork at The Roundhouse in Camden opens this week. The work within Salander is written by young people in care from London. Fierce. In Salander experience the performance of reading Read more [...]
Civilize You. A brand new poem.
I have a brand new piece of work commissioned by Denys Baptiste for his critically acclaimed "Now Is The Time...Let Freedom Ring" tour. The photo below was taken last month at The Queen Elizabeth Read more [...]
The performance of reading
The same way video killed the radio star the internet kills the evaluation form. I've spent the week in West Yorkshire at The Arvon Foundation in Lumb Bank with co-tutor Hannah Pool. It's been a blast. Read more [...]
To MBE or not MBE.
This Wednesday night I’ll be on stage at Sadller's Wells to talk on why I accepted my OBE as pictured below. The discussion is held after a show called The Letter by Jonzi D about how Read more [...]
Refugee Boy tour confirmed for 2014
Refugee Boy is brilliant novel written by Benjamin Zephaniah. It was adapted by yours truly for the stage and played a sell out run to great national reviews at West Yorkshire Playhouse earlier Read more [...]
Southbank Celebrates Mandela’s Birthday.
Leading writers, poets, musicians, performers and spoken word artists photographed on Wednesday 18 September, ahead of a sold out event at Southbank Centre in Nelson Mandela’s honour, where they read Read more [...]
The Last Poets at Southbank Centre on Wednesday.
If Gil Scott-Heron is "The Godfather of rap" then meet the young fathers - The Last Poets. On Wednesday they perform at Southbank Centre. A few months ago we hung out in Harlem. A few years Read more [...]