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Accessibility? Must do better. Disabled poet Shaun Fallows looks back at the good and bad times on his Arts Council-funded tour

I could have kicked myself back in the summer when I realised I’d written the wrong date on the calendar for disabled poet and wheelchair user Shaun Fallows’ gig at the Poetry Jam in Durham. I’ve known Shaun for a few years online and on Zoom, but I’d never seen him live. Both of us were looking forward to meeting up. So I had to get in touch afterwards to say sorry, and to ask him how the tour to...

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'We ride the electric horse without any reins': poet Shaun Fallows on disability and freedom

Shaun Fallows was born with cerebral palsy, and is a wheelchair user. Last year the Wigan-based poet appeared on a Channel 5 programme to talk about disability, and also published his first poetry collection, Access-Ability. During lockdown he has been appearing at open-mic nights he wouldn’t normal...

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