An image of Poet Miss Jacqui, She has long black hair and wears an orange hoodie, she also has a brown, orange and white coat on, she wears brown trousers. She smiles at the camera, her left hand rests on the blue controls of her wheelchair.

Miss Jacqui

Miss Jacqui is part of SPINE Festival 2024, along with an incredible team of poets they’ll be leading workshops and arts activities for children in Libraries and schools across London this Spring. Describe yourself in 3 words… Respectfully honest, Goofball, passionate. What inspires you?  Family and the communities I come from. Tell us about your worst…

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An image of poet Justin Coe, he has short brown hair and wears a blue jacket with an organ shirt underneath. He holds a book in front of him and looks at it. He is wearing black trousers and black shoes.

Justin Coe

Justin is part of SPINE Festival 2024, along with an incredible team of poets they’ll be leading workshops and arts activities for children in Libraries and schools across London this Spring. Describe yourself in 3 words… Not Mr Tumble  What inspires you? There’s a poem in anything. Today is all about biscuits and bicycles –…

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An image of poet Linden McMahon, Linden has short brown hair and wears glasses. They have a flowery shirt and black dungarees. The sit on a white pedestal and were black boots.

Linden McMahon

Linden is part of SPINE Festival 2024, along with an incredible team of poets they’ll be leading workshops and arts activities for children in Libraries and schools across London this Spring. Describe yourself in 3 words… Just a hopepunk hobbit What inspires you? At the moment I write a lot about the ecosystems we’re part of;…

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Artist Alim Kamara, he is squatted on his haunches, he wears a grey t-shirt and blue jeans. He wears black headphones over his ears and has short black hair. He holds a small instrument in his hands called an Mbira. You can pluck the metal prongs to make a sound.

Alim Kamara

Alim is is part of SPINE Festival 2024, along with an incredible team of poets they’ll be leading workshops and arts activities for children in Libraries and schools across London this Spring. Describe yourself in 3 words… Alim (means scholar), ‘quiet extrovert’  What inspires you? It can feel like inspiration comes out of thin air, but I…

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An image if artist Gunes Given, she holds a green book. She has brown shoulder length hair and wears a blue sleeveless cardigan with a black and white stripy top underneath. She wears blue jeans and yellow sneakers. She smiles at the camera.

Günes Güven

Güneş is part of SPINE Festival 2024, along with an incredible team of poets they’ll be leading workshops and arts activities for children in Libraries and schools across London this Spring. Describe yourself in 3 words… Introspective Discerning Versatile or Force of Nature What inspires you? Nature has always been my inspiration, however, nowadays my…

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An image of poet Rachel Lewis. She has shoulder length brown hair. She smiles at the camera and holds a blue book covered in stickers. She wears a brown jumper and black trousers.

Rachel Lewis

Rachel is part of SPINE Festival 2024, along with an incredible team of poets they’ll be leading workshops and arts activities for children in Libraries and schools across London this Spring. Describe yourself in 3 words… Hard to summarise.  What inspires you? There’s a Terry Pratchett novel where he describes inspiration particles sleeting through the…

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An image of poet Ehireme Omoaka. He has long black hair and wears a black hoodie and Green trousers. He is smiling in the image.

Ehireme Omoaka

Ehireme is part of SPINE Festival 2024, along with an incredible team of poets they’ll be leading workshops and arts activities for children in Libraries and schools across London this Spring. Describe yourself in 3 words… Observant chilled playful What inspires you? Other artists that push boundaries. Music that has meaningful messages. My children.  Tell…

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Zohab Zee Khan

Zohab is part of SPINE Festival 2024, along with an incredible team of poets they’ll be leading workshops and arts activities for children in Libraries and schools across London this Spring. Describe yourself in 3 words… Globetrotting Poetic Adventurer. What inspires you? Those in my family that came before me. The last four generations of my…

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Eileen Gbagbo

Eileen is part of SPINE Festival 2024, along with an incredible team of poets they’ll be leading workshops and arts activities for children in Libraries and schools across London this Spring. Describe yourself in 3 words… Nerdy, introverted, auntie. What inspires you? The community of Black British poets, writers and creatives that came before my…

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