John Agard, Buddy Wakefield

John Agard, Buddy Wakefield

at Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
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Picture The Poet: Live Event

To mark the closing of the Picture The Poet exhibition in Sheffield, two internationally-acclaimed writers and performers read their poetry.

John Agard is an Afro-Guyanese poet and playwright now living in Britain. He has published numerous collections and won various awards, most recently the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2012.

Buddy Wakefield is an American slam poet. One of the most successful performance poets anywhere in the world, he has two Individual World Poetry Slam Championship wins under his belt.

Also featuring local poets Gav Roberts, Stan Skinny and a performance by young people inspired by the Picture The Poet exhibition.

John Agard

A performer poet who can be erotic, hilariously frank, or deeply symbolic using styled sensuous language with unique sounding spoken words.

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Buddy Wakefield

Buddy Wakefield appearing at this event

American performance poet who was World Slam Poetry Champion 2004. 'Buddy Wakefield is the spoken word gold standard' (Ani DiFranco) 'Buddy…

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Graves Art Gallery

Surrey Street
Sheffield
S1 1XZ

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Graves Art Gallery

Surrey Street
Sheffield
S1 1XZ

See all events at Graves Art Gallery