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    Nick Makoha – Flight

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    Keith Jarrett – Inland

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    Elena Chamberlain – The Origin Story Of…

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    Debris Stevenson – True

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    YA Poet – Loving Me

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    Francis Mukiibi – You Take the Night Bus Through North

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    Kareem Parkins Brown – Bipoloar Abecedarian

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    PA Bitez – I see Only Cranes

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    Chrissie – Beautiful Little Fools

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    David Woolcott – Older Now

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    John Bernard – Mud Stained

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    Belinda Zhawi – Land Still Holds

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    Ayan Aden – Usheeg

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    Zakariye Abdillahi – To the ones whos eras outlived them

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    Blaize Alexis – On My Mind

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    Ty’rone Haughton – Feel. Free. Rich

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    Muneera Pilgrim – Divine Light

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    Caroline Druitt – Unlisted/Not Listed

    Watch as Poet Caroline Druitt performs her poem Unlisted/Not Listed as part of Apples and Snake’s Blackbox recordings.

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    Saf – Prophet

    Poet Saf performs Prophet as part of Apples and Snakes’ Blackbox performances.

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    Sophie Lau – Skeletons and Feathers

    Watch as poet Sophie Lau performs their poem Skeletons and Feathers as part of Apples and Snakes: Blackbox.

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    The Death of Eddie

    In 1999, Eddie Steele Rosen – son, brother, friend and very much his own true self – died. He caught meningitis. He was 18 years old. It was a shock to all who knew and loved him and now, nearly 25 years later, he’s very much remembered and loved. We think of him every day,…

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    Michael Rosen – ‘Many Different Kinds of Love’

    In March 2020, I got Covid. My condition dipped and I was put into an induced coma for 40 days. By the time I got home after 3 months in hospital, I was weak and confused. I started to write poems to help me get a handle on what had happened and what was happening day by day now that I was out.

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    Shaun Hill – ‘That night, I saw god under a traffic light, hold me warm blooded thing’

    Shaun Hill is a 26-year-old poet mapping post-capitalist ways of being. He lives in leafy Birmingham and was the recipient of an Apples & Snakes | Jerwood Arts: Poetry in Performance Award for 2020.

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