A Poet Walks Into a Bar
The first poem I ever performed in public was in the basement of a Starbucks. It was something sweet, innocent […]
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From Callout to Publication
How it Worked For me – Sundra Lawrence I love Apples and Snakes callouts – the news neatly folded in […]
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Iroro Azanuwha: Not a typical poet
Some people might say that I don’t look like a typical poet. I’m ok with that.
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Not Feeling Like a Poet
“I’ve never really seen myself as a writer, more somebody who happens to write. I didn’t grow up dreaming of […]
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Tahmina Ali – This is a Mother Poet
“…The only thing that helped me stay connected to who I was was my writing” Who am I? I am […]
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The Poems of Joseph Coelho
Joseph Coelho has been a long-time friend of Apples and Snakes. With his latest release, Poems Aloud, what better way […]
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Practical Poetry in Times of Revolution – lisa luxx
“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the […]
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Kate Fox: This is a Neurodivergent Poet
This is a Neurodivergent Poet… I know a lot of other poets feel, as I did, that whenever they first […]
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2021 Round Up
Hello from Apples and Snakes What to say about 2021, was it worse than 2020? Hard to choose! We kept […]
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Open House: Mapping the journey of ESOL
Open House has been running as part of the SPINE Festival since 2017. The project is specifically devised for refugee […]
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On Poetry and Painting – Alice Frecknall
Subject, perspective, composition, medium, colour palette, framing, tools… these are some of the things that come to mind when I […]
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FAQ with Rick Dove
In July this year Rick Dove became the oldest ever Hammer & Tongue National Slam Champion. Rick was a participant in our Red Sky Sessions and he was […]
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Jean “Binta” Breeze
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our great friend and most powerful poet, Jean Binta Breeze. […]
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What’s SPINE Festival all about?
Preparations for this year’s SPINE Festival are well underway and we can’t wait for it to start in June. The […]
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Zena Edwards: Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
Zena recently joined Apples and Snakes officially as a Consulting Artistic Associate. She has been a long time friend of […]
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The Last Poets: Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan – Part 2
In the second part of this blog, Artistic Director of Apples and Snakes, Lisa Mead, and Consulting Artistic Associate, Zena […]
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The Last Poets: Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan – Part 1
Artistic Director of Apples and Snakes, Lisa Mead, interviewed our friends Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan from The Last […]
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Joelle Taylor: Writing From Archives
Lesbian history is obscured by centuries of misogyny, homophobia and class difference. As a consequence, much of the material available refers to upper and middle-class women, in the form of diaries, artworks and analytical texts.
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The Woman With The Wasted Face: Poets, Tread Carefully This Halloween
Please don’t call the police, but I was thirteen when I first watched the fifteen-rated, 2002 version of The Ring. […]
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Beth Calverley: In Defence of Daydreams
Beth Calverley, founder of The Poetry Machine, has seen the positive effects of poetry through her work within health and […]
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Anti-Racist Practice in Education
Written by Ming Akila with an introduction from Talia Randall A+S: Could we start with each of you giving us […]
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The Artist’s Responsibility
What is the role of the artist in moments of historic, social, or political importance? Is there a responsibility to […]
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Black Lives Matter: Our Commitment
28 May 2021 In response to Black Lives Matter, we have started to embed equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB) […]
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Spoken word is dead: long live poetry?
Could it be that there is too much poetry in spoken word? There can be no props, costumes and stage personas if we absorb the assumption that poetry is not a performing art.
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