16/06/2024
Tonight Nottingham and Derby are going head to head in a battle of words that will leave you speechless!
Meet the poet's that will be representing Nottingham at the Notts vs Derby poetry slam this Sunday 16th June, 6pm - 8pm at The Old Cold Store!
Abíọ́dún Abdul is a Yorùbá-Nigerian English Language Lecturer and UNESCO Global Poetry Slam Champion 2022. She also writes short stories, life essays and memoir-polemics reflecting on social issues encompassing her schooling across Yorùbá-Nigeria, Scots-Britain and Japan.
Just Peachy
Jake Wild Hall is a poet, performer, publisher, and bookseller based in Nottingham. Originally from London, Jake is the artistic director of Bad Betty Press and has published two poetry pamphlets that toured across the UK. Jake has also been published in bath magg, Bi+ Lines, Anthropocene and elsewhere, performed on BBC Radio, and co-edited anthologies.
Fay Roberts is a performance poet, a musician, a storyteller, an events host, an award-winning voice actor, former Artistic Director for Spoken Word at PBH’s Free Fringe, and an enormous geek. During weekdays, ze persuades people to make lists and say no to shiny things. Zir first full collection, Spectral, came out with Burning Eye in March 2022, and ze describes it as “a kind of poetry concept album, with illustrations"."
A short, angry wordsmith with a bit of a gob, Jess Gibson is a poet of two parts, penning both cuttingly-insightful political poetry and more personal, Plath-style confessional poetry. Jess aims to galvanise the masses from apathy to angry action by penning poems that are both raw and powerful. Though writing for many years and published in anthologies, Jess has only started developing her spoken word over the past year and has gathered some dedicated fans with a local Notts music producer saying her delivery of her poems "in itself is an art".
