WORD!, Renaissance One and BrightSparks present - Windrush Day with John Agard and Friends
Description
Join us for a special event celebrating Windrush Day and the poetry and words of international poet John Agard plus local poet sensations, brought to you through a collaboration between Renaissance One and WORD! We'll offer a space for conversation, performance and a Caribbean-style lime.
John Agard is a poet, playwright and short story writer who grew up in Guyana, where his love of language stemmed from listening to cricket commentaries on the radio. He has won many prizes, including the Smarties Book Prize and the Queen’s Gold Medal and in 2021 was awarded the prestigious BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding contribution to children’s literature. John is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and his work appears in an AQA anthology for GCSE English Literature. With his wife, the poet Grace Nichols, John has edited the Walker anthologies A Caribbean Dozen and Under the Moon and Over the Sea, and he is the author of the Carnegie-longlisted My Name Is Book. John lives in Lewes, East Sussex.
If you would like to share something as part of the open mic, please email hello@wordpoetry.co.uk
Book before Sunday 1 June to get the full price ticket of £10 for the advance price of £6. This is automatically applied at checkout.
Students can get 2-for-1 tickets for this event. When putting in 2 tickets at checkout, the discount will apply automatically.
“A unique and energetic force in contemporary British poetry, John Agard’s poems combine acute social observation, puckish wit and a riotous imagination to thrilling effect.” – Poetry Archive
“A wonderful affirmation of life, in a language that is vital and joyous”— David Dabydeen
“Agard received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2012, but he is nonetheless a poet of the people; or, better still, the nation’s jester, speaking truth to power in many registers.” Fred D’Aguiar, Times Literary Supplement.