WORD
8pm onwards, Wednesday 5th JulyFREE
Special guest Valerie Bloom
Host Steve Rooney
@ Bambu, 21 Welford Road, Leicester (opposite council buildings)
Open floor spots available.
For more info contact Steve Carroll (07870 608875 / steve@applesandsnakes.org)
www.applesandsnakes.org.
Word is Leicester's premier open floor spoken word event. It runs on the
first Wednesday of each month at Bambu café bar, and features a fantastic
guest artist as well as open floor spots.
Valerie Bloom
Valerie Bloom was born in Clarendon, Jamaica and came to England in 1979. She attended the University of Kent at Canterbury from 1982-84 where she gained a first class honours degree in English with African and Caribbean Studies and in 1995 she was awarded an Honorary Masters Degree by the same university for her work as a poet.
Valerie has performed her poetry extensively in Britain and abroad, in schools, universities, theatres, at festivals such as Hay-on-Wye, Cheltenham, and Womad, and on radio and television. She has run writing courses for the Arvon Foundation, in-service courses for teachers and librarians, and writing workshops in schools and colleges.
Her books include, Touch Mi, Tell Mi (Bogle L'Ouverture, 1983) reprinted in 1990, Duppy Jamboree, (Cambridge University Press, 1992) Fruits (Macmillan, 1997) Ackee, Breadfruit Callaloo (Bogle L'Ouverture and Macmillan, 1999,) Let Me Touch the Sky, Selected Poems (Macmillan, 2000) The World Is Sweet (Bloomsbury, 2000) and New Baby (Macmillan, 2000.) Her selected spoken works, Yuh Hear Bout? (57 Productions, 1997) is available on cassette tape.
In addition, her poems have been included in over one hundred adult and children's anthologies, in the Poems on the Underground, in The Independent, the CXC Examination Syllabus for Caribbean Schools, and in the NEAB GCSE English/English Literature Anthology. Valerie is presently writing, performing and conducting workshops full time.
http://www.valbloom.co.uk/
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