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Apples and Snakes: a journey through 35 years of live poetry

Spoken Word Archive is the history of Apples and Snakes, England’s leading organisation dealing specifically with performance poetry and spoken word. Find out more about the project or get in touch.

Featured items
  • Spoken Word Poetry: the Animation

    Spoken Word Poetry: the Animation

  • Interview with Lemn Sissay

    Interview with Lemn Sissay

  • Lydia Tomkiw

    Lydia Tomkiw

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Latest comments
  • Bella on Contact usThe Spoken Word Archive is an amazing wealth of knowledge and history! It's so great to be able to track the progress of one's poetic heroes from grassroots to where they are now :) Thank you!
  • Fiona Marie on Lydia TomkiwThis is fascinating! It's sent me down an Algebra Suicide / Lydia Tomkiw researching wormhole.
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  • 5. @katfrancois reads her poem, The Windrushed, written in response to the issues around deportation and immigratio… https://t.co/tYyd8jPrbD8 hours ago
  • 4. John Agard reads his poem Windrush Child8 hours ago
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