Blackbox

    Sophie Lau – Skeletons and Feathers

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    BREIS – Fear of Failre

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    Stanley Iyanu – Atlas

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    Caroline Druitt – Chronic

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    Zohab Zee Khan – Home

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    Casey Bailey – The Air

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    Christy Ku – I Hope I’m the Villain of Your Story

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    Iftikha Latif – Old Man

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    Jasmin Thien – Untold Histories

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    Jay Mitra – If Lazarus Did Not Want to Win

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    Jay Sandhu – What Even is British-ness

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    Kat Francois – One of Seven

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    Kayleigh Jayshree – Gentle

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    Koko Brown – An Ode to the Independent Black Woman

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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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    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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    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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    Rojbin Arjen Yigit – ‘B Flat Seventy-Five Octaves Below Middle C’

    Rojbîn Arjen Yigit is a Kurdish writer and medical student. She has written for Bad Form, Gal-Dem, Lucy Writers, theartsdesk and AZEEMA. She is part of The Writing Room – a poetry programme led by Apples & Snakes.

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    Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa – ‘Carnival Queen’

    Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is a British born Barbadian raised interdisciplinary poet who chiefly uses movement and dance to compose her work on the page and stage.

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    Neelam Saredia-Brayley – ‘Wives’

    Neelam Saredia-Brayley is an award-winning poet, captivating audiences for over 9 years. Effortlessly warm and honest, Neelam works with illustrators, musicians and dancers, creating unique, multi-disciplinary performances.

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    lisa luxx – ‘I Always Thought’

    lisa luxx is a queer writer, performer, essayist and activist of British and Syrian heritage. She writes for freedoms, for healing, to mobilise and to inquire.

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    Lashay Green – ‘Teething’

    Lashay is a poet, spoken word artist, writer, and playwright from North-West London. She recently completed a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. Her past creative engagements include the Kiln Theatre, in which she wrote a short play Eulogies written entirely in spoken word.

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    Ingrid McLaren – ‘Blue’

    Ingrid is a writer, artist and musician who is trying to be heard and stuff. She has performed poetry nationally, was selected to perform as a regional poet at Hit the Ode in Birmingham and ran a poetry and discussion event called Processed Feud in Brighton which was funded by hummus.

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    Eileen Gbagbo – ‘Oil Fields’

    Eileen Gbagbo is a spoken word artist and journalist based in London. Originally from Ghana, she is interested in how we use the boundaries of language to help understand the historical and phenomenon of the world.

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