Door-to-Door Poetry And The Collaborative Process
As the Door-to-Door Poetry project took shape, it became clear that this wasn’t about persuading anyone, or trying to demonstrate how clever I was. It was about listening and holding the space until I found an earnest moment of connection.
Ellis Witter
Ellis Witter is an Actor, Writer, Producer, Model, Author, Poet, Presenter and overall creative who has starred in projects like ‘Amani’ ‘Sick (Mental Health Short Film, Reggie Yates’s ‘Make Me Famous’ as well as an NCS Advert entitled ‘No We Can!’
A mist of questions
In November last year, Inua Ellams flew from London, England, to Benin, Nigeria, for his second arts residency at the Museum of West African Art in Edo State.
Collective Energy: Building a Life in Poetry with GOBS
Running GOBS has taught me as much about sustainability as it has about poetry. Collectives thrive on energy.
End of Year – Goodbye 2025
Hey 🙂 It’s that time of year when we do a ‘quick’ round-up of all things Apples!! Big news for 2025 saw us going back to our roots and reclaiming the idea of performance poetry being what we are all about. Exciting times ahead! As ever, we delivered loads of amazing work with a brilliant…
Chaos Menu
I’d love to say my arts practice was forged in fire. It sounds good, doesn’t it? It makes my arts practice sound tough. It’s not tough (is anyones?) but it is resilient.
Eco Poetry: The Personal, The Political and Deeper Connections
I’ve been thinking about how poetry can help us listen better, and how art affirms that we are all connected.
Finding Poetic Inspiration in Uncertainty
I have a fascination with the mundane, which is where most of us will spend the majority of our lives in. I find that the interplay between ordinary moments set against the complexities of social structures and theory make for rich poetic ground.
Farewell 2024
Hey Folks, It’s that time of year where we do a ‘quick’ round-up of all things Apples!! We thought 2024 might have been a bit of quieter following our 40th anniversary season but it seems to have been busier than ever. Big news this year has been our merger with Poet in the City, not…
Welcome Ty’Rone Haughton
Apples & Snakes announces its first Trainee Artistic Director as Poet and playwright Ty’rone Haughton
My Journey into Writing for Children
Only 11% of children’s books published in 2021 featured a character from a Global Majority background. Even more starkly, just 2% of U.K. children’s authors and illustrators come from these communities.
Scars – Red Room Poetry
Aamani Kanda and KJ Haywood in conversation about the joys and challenges of creating a poem together across two continents. Read their poem ‘Scars’.
Cascadoo Festival
Poet and writer Shareefa Energy writes about her time in Trinidad and her experience at the Cascadoo Festival.
With thanks…
Following 5 years dedicated to supporting poets in the Midlands and across the country, Owen’s role as Associate Producer has come to its end and he is now off pursuing his own exciting creative projects. During his time at Apples and Snakes, Owen led on the BBC Words First programme, developed our alumni Work From…
From baby poet to Croydon Poet Laureate
From baby poet to Croydon Poet Laureate By: Shaniqua Benjamin Although I’ve always loved writing, I stayed away from poetry until my early 20s. Fashion design had been my focus, so when I dropped out of university to pursue a career in writing and eventually discovered that poetry was the avenue for me, it was…
Poetry under Occupation
By Shareefa Energy. I was invited to The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank in Palestine as lead facilitator for the 2022 ‘Through The Eyes of Women – Feminist Theatre Festival,’ to deliver poetry and creative writing workshops, alongside performing poetry in Jenin and Ramallah. I last facilitated poetry and public speaking…
The Pause – Field Lab
Early this year I was invited by Team London Bridge, in partnership Apples and Snakes, to put together a day of interactive exercises that would inspire a different spin on talking about the climate and ecological crisis as part of the epic In A Field by A Bridge Festival. Since 2018, I’ve had many conversations in climate and environmental…
WORDCUP : An Overview
Each poem owes gratitude to other poems and poets that went before it. Poetry is a communal, collaborative act. Sometimes we fall into the trap of spotlighting the individual, whoever’s creative genius steals our breath. And yet we know that everything exists in a continuum. Each poem owes gratitude to other poems and poets that…
Tatenda Matsvai
Describe yourself in 3 words… Playful, Enthusiastic, Sporadic What inspires you? I am inspired by life the beauty the weight, the flow of it all through music movementbreath, it moves me, makes me feel present, real unreal at times and like magic, My family,my mother the story teller, my father the spokesperson, my sister and…
Apples and Snakes changes lives. Apples and Snakes changed my life.
It’s a bold claim but it’s true, Apples and Snakes really did change my life. Reaching me just at the right time and showing me that poetry wasn’t/isn’t exclusively written in the drawing rooms of the privileged, that community work was not of lesser quality and that art really can change lives in a way…
The Path from Shadow to Poet Coach
WORDCUP ’14 – ’23 The Woods of Writing As a poet who has reached a decade into this line of life (I’d call it work, but poetry is something lived, isn’t it?) I have found myself reflecting on the journey, the path from Shadow to Poet Coach. Over this decade, I have facilitated poetry in…
Apples and Snakes Takeover and All Stars Gig
Apples and Snakes Takeover & All Stars Gig On a sunny Saturday 3 June 2023, we hosted our special Takeover and All Stars gig at the Roundhouse in London. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Apples and Snakes in style, the day featured live performances, creative workshops, podcast recordings and talks. This epic birthday bash was…
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