• Skip to content
 
  • Log in
  • Contact us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Spoken Word Archive
35 years
of performance poetry
  • Home
  • About
  • Artists & Shows
  • Our collection
  • Features
  • Get involved
  • Resources
You are here:
Home>Artists>Linda King
Search by date
Search by artist
  • Lemn Sissay (95)
  • Jean 'Binta' Breeze (90)
  • Zena Edwards (88)
  • Patience Agbabi (84)
  • Francesca Beard (79)
  • Malika Booker (69)
  • Aoife Mannix (65)
  • El Crisis (61)
  • John Hegley (60)
  • Joolz Denby (56)

All artists

Search by venue
  • Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
  • Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Rich Mix (117)
  • Albany (London - Lewisham) (81)
  • Soho Theatre (68)
  • Nuffield (Southampton) (57)
  • Horseshoe (52)
  • Roebuck (51)
  • Victoria (Birmingham) (51)
  • Barbican (Plymouth) (48)

All venues

Linda King

Contains 17 performances.

Not to be confused with Bukowski's ex of the same name. This Linda King was a Florida-born, London-based, Black lesbian poet given to jazz-poetry experimentation, often accompanied by her ensembles A Woman's Blues and (later) Firebird.

  • Joolz, Sister Netifa, Linda King, Anna Palm

    Joolz, Sister Netifa, Linda King, Anna Palm

    12 February 1988 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Hope Augustus, Pauline Melville, Marsha Prescod, Linda King

    Hope Augustus, Pauline Melville, Marsha Prescod, Linda King

    29 April 1988 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Midsummer Poetry Festival (1988)

    Midsummer Poetry Festival (1988)

    19 June 1988 at 
    Covent Garden Piazza (2)
    Annual partnership event with Alternative Arts.
  • Women of the Word 1

    Women of the Word 1

    17 October 1988 at 
    North Peckham Civic Centre (4)
  • Jezebel Poets & Linda King

    Jezebel Poets & Linda King

    21 October 1988 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
    Jezebel Poets (Marg Yeo, Suniti Namjoshi & Gillian Hanscombe, with Lucy White) Linda King
  • Julie McNamara, Jackie Kay, Linda King, Ann Ziety

    Julie McNamara, Jackie Kay, Linda King, Ann Ziety

    25 November 1988 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Joolz, Linda King, Leonora Rogers-Wright, Bridgit Bard

    Joolz, Linda King, Leonora Rogers-Wright, Bridgit Bard

    07 April 1989 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • The Second International Poetry Festival

    The Second International Poetry Festival

    08 April 1989 at 
    Interchange (3)
  • Julie McNamara, Mary Dorcey, Linda King, Belinda Burton

    Julie McNamara, Mary Dorcey, Linda King, Belinda Burton

    03 November 1989 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Maud Sulter, Sapphire, Carol Grimes (with Angèle Veltmeijer, Janette Mason & Shelly Morris), Linda King

    Maud Sulter, Sapphire, Carol Grimes (with Angèle Veltmeijer, Janette Mason & Shelly Morris), Linda King

    30 March 1990 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Mother Tongue UK Tour '91- (First Night London)

    Mother Tongue UK Tour '91- (First Night London)

    1 March 1991 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Mother Tongue UK Tour '91- (Perf 9)

    Mother Tongue UK Tour '91- (Perf 9)

    13 March 1991 at 
    Central Studios (Basingstoke) (1)
  • Linda King's A Woman's Blues, Storme Webber, Jade, Patience Agbabi

    Linda King's A Woman's Blues, Storme Webber, Jade, Patience Agbabi

    27 September 1991 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • New World Colour Tour

    New World Colour Tour

    30 November 1991 at 
    Roseville Centre (Leeds) (5)
  • New World Colour Tour

    New World Colour Tour

    1 December 1991 at 
    Inkworks Project (Bristol) (2)
  • Identity Tour - (Perf 5)

    Identity Tour - (Perf 5)

    15 March 1992 at 
    Gayles (Oxford) (1)
  • An Evening of Black Lesbian and Black Gay Poetry

    An Evening of Black Lesbian and Black Gay Poetry

    23 June 1994 at 
    Surrey Hall (London - Clapham) (2)
    A partnership with Lambeth Amenity Services. Included readings of Essex Hemphill‘s work
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.
Twitter
  • Cheeky little reminder on our World Poetry Day competition with @SkyAcademy. Closes 10 March. #edutwitter… https://t.co/jDdX3jrZT12 hours ago
  • RT @JoinTheSeason_: ANNOUNCEMENT: Today we are launching our Open Programme - a call out to the creative community to celebrate the environ…15 hours ago
Arts Council(opens in new window) Apples and Snakes(opens in new window) Heritage Lottery Fund(opens in new window)

Content released under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0. Website by CommunitySites