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Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks

In June 2016, Matt Abbott’s hometown of Wakefield voted 66% Leave. Either side of referendum day, he was volunteering at a Calais Jungle refugee camp just 22 miles from Dover. Now this rising star of the spoken word scene is taking his first full-length stage show, inspired by these events, on an extensive British tour.

Two Little Ducks is a fiercely relevant exploration of identity, prejudice ...

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Laura Taylor - Fault Lines

One of the UK’s most incisive performance poets is on a whistle-stop tour of London in October to promote her second collection ‘Fault Lines’

‘Fault Lines’ is a “poetic battle cry. I’d like my teenage daughter to read these poems because, as women, we shouldn’t have to wait for middle age to clai...

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Experience some Georgian poetry: translated and on tour in the UK

Two remarkable Georgian Poets Diana Anphimiadi (pictured) and Salome Benidze will tour the UK this May alongside British poet-translators Jean Sprackland and Helen Mort, and bridge-translator Natalia ...

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