12/16/2023 0 Comments Royal tsx has no microphoneTo rhyme, rap, or speak of poetry performance, its lyrical forms, beats, and bars is also to invoke the voices of Black British poets and collectives across Britain’s geographical breadth. To what degree does Black British spoken word poetry offer an ongoing ‘avant-garde’? From the Black People’s Day of Action to #BLM, to decolonising the curriculum, spoken word poetry plays significant roles in Black activism bears witness to contested and forgotten histories and imagines new futures, communities, and belongings. While fashioning electrifying performance personae, Black British spoken-word poets have equally claimed, redefined, or rejected the term ‘performance’. The legacy of this work both on and off the page follows diasporic routes in and out of Britain from Una Marson to James Berry, from the Caribbean Artists Movement to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, John Agard, and Roger Robinson through to the twenty-first century poets Patience Agbabi, Jay Bernard, Anthony Joseph, Raymond Antrobus, Warsan Shire, and Caleb Femi to name a few. A free one day conference celebrating Black British poetry in performance, hosted by Poetry Off the Page, Goldsmiths and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.īlack British* poets have long pushed the aesthetic and sonic boundaries of performance in spoken word, creating a compelling public voice for poetry.
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