BBC Contains Strong Language Festival
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The UK's biggest poetry and performance festival of new writing heads to Sydney, Australia🎤📻 28th-31st August 2024
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One Week Away ✨ The The Laurel Prize 2023 Ceremony, Fri 22 Sep at 3.30 pm (BST). Part of BBC Contains Strong Language Festival 🌍 Readings from our shortlist: Liza Katz Duncan @autumnhousepress, Jorie Graham, Holly Hopkins, Zaffar Kunial, Yvonne Reddick. bit.ly/3r4FsNu
One Week Away ✨ The Laurel Prize 2023 Ceremony, Fri 22 Sep at 3.30 pm (BST). Part of BBC Contains Strong Language Festival 🌍 Readings from our shortlist: Liza Katz Duncan @autumnhousepress, Jorie Graham, Holly Hopkins, Zaffar Kunial, Yvonne Reddick. bit.ly/3r4FsNu
Working on the introductions and questions for the four (count ‘em) editions of @R3TheVerb we’ll be making at the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds next weekend! What a mixture of poetry and performance; I’ll see you all there and on BBC Radio 3 !
Calling all poetry fans! Hear 6 fantastic LGBTQIA+ poets from India and the UK sharing new work as part of Language Is A Queer Thing, live BBC Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds Friday 22 Sept, 3:30pm Leeds Central Library Tickets: bbc.co.uk/events/edb84f/… #LIAQT The Queer Muslim Project Verve Poetry Festival
We’re the festival booksellers at the BBC Contains Strong Language BBC Contains Strong Language Festival festival! Drop by the Howard Assembly Room in Leeds to check out all these goodies 🥳📚😍
I can wholeheartedly recommend tuning into @BBCRaido4 on Monday for Start The Week featuring the wonderfully inspiring lemn sissay OBE FRSL and Inunu Engafi 🤩 recorded today during BBC Contains Strong Language Festival 2023 👏
We have got a limited amount of tickets available for 'If on a Winter's night' Please speak to the box office Leeds Playhouse for tickets or book online. Get your tickets now to see Toby Jones Tim Crouch 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 and Indira Varma 📻 leedsplayhouse.org.uk/event/if-on-a-…
Ian's got his show shirt on. He's all ready for our special live edition of The Verb in Leeds, onstage with Simon Armitage, Chris Tse, Hanan Issa and Titilope Sonuga - live at 10pm BBC Radio 3
Another fantastic BBC Contains Strong Language Festival event at Howard Assembly Room #Leeds: lemn sissay OBE FRSL reading from his collection of short poems, Let The Light Pour In. Thought-provoking, moving, funny... pretty much all the bases covered. Photos show the poet in full performance mode - amazing!
MORNING! Live with BBC Radio 3 from LEEDS today with producers Les Pratt & olive clancy - the Contains Strong Language Festival is happening here all weekend check it out BBC Contains Strong Language Festival. Poet, musician, MC Testament is my guest + Delius, Liszt, Byrd, Nightports, Mozart 🎶
Such a great time performing and enjoying other poet’s performances at the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival this weekend! Lovely to meet members of the Queer Muslim Collective Verve Poetry Festival and seeing lush poets like @kimmoorepoet Malika Booker Inunu Engafi Chris Tse Titilope Sonuga Ian Duhig FRSL 💚
It’s been an absolute dream meeting, performing with, and learning from some of the best poets in the UK and the world. My heart is full from these new poetic connections. Thank you BBC Contains Strong Language Festival, Leeds 2023 and the British Council for an incredible week.
Amazing last day at BBC Contains Strong Language Festival Performed a set with an amazing audience and finished with a freestyle inspired by something michellescallyclarke sent me 🙏🏽❤️ Honoured to have been on same bill as brilliant @ceciliaknapp & holy pants Toria Garbutt just 🔥🌟❤️💯 everyone🤯
