Black History Month @ WoW presents Storytime with Patience Agbabi

Writing on the Wallis a dynamic, Liverpool-based community organisation that coordinates projects and events that celebrate writing in all its forms. We work with a broad and inclusive definition of writing that embraces literature, creative writing, journalism and non-fiction, poetry, songwriting, and storytelling. Writing on the Wall works with local, national and international writers whose work provokes controversy and debate. We work with all of Liverpool’s communities to promote and celebrate individual and collective creativity.

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Storytime reading from multi-award winning poet Patience Agbabi. Patience Agbabi’s poetry has been featured on radio and TV worldwide. She has spent over 20 years celebrating the written and spoken word and she was nominated one of the UK’s ‘Next Generation Poets’ (2004). Her work has appeared in a broad range of anthologies, on TV and radio, The London Underground and human skin. Her poem, ‘The Doll’s House’, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2014. Patience studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University, and is a former Poet Laureate of Canterbury. The author of five books, a novel for middle graders The Infinite (Canongate, 2020) and four poetry collections including Telling Tales (Canongate, 2014), which is a vivid retelling of Chaucer&#x27;s The Canterbury Tales for the 21st century and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize for New Work in Poetry 2014 and was a Wales Book of the Year (2015).The global Black Lives Matter protests that characterised our summer were truly inspirational. Black communities and anti-racists across the globe are demanding change. Writing on the Wall are proud to present their programme for Black History month featuring some of the most inspirational local, national and international black artists. For a full list of events go to <a href="https://www.wowfest.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.wowfest.uk/</a>

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