Spit And Polish

The Best in Spoken Word

Headlining the amazing line-up for November is Inua Ellams, an internationally touring poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist & designer. He has published three pamphlets of poetry: ‘Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars’, ‘Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales’ and ‘The Wire-Headed Heathen’. His first play ‘The 14th Tale’ (a one-man show which he performed) was awarded a Fringe First at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and his third, ‘Black T-Shirt Collection’ ran at England’s National Theatre.

Inua is joined by three equally impressive poets in Rachel Long, leader of Octavia: A Poetry Collective For Women of Colour at Southbank Centre, Antosh Wojcik, a Resident Artist at The Roundhouse and a member of the Burn After Reading community and Theresa Lola, one of the winners of the 2016 Magic Oxygen Poetry Prize, she was also recently shortlisted for the 2016 London Poetry Magazine Prize.

Come and be staggered by this wealth of talent.