Archive : SoapBox Poetry Club presents Anthony Anaxagorou

23/11/2016

The November edition of the SoapBox Poetry Club will fall on Wednesday 23rd of November - featuring Anthony Anaxagorou as the headliner - and will close the 2016 programme. At each event we chose an extraordinary, award winning national poet to come to Suffolk and share their words with us. Featuring talented support from East Anglia, two poets and a musician, hosted by Dan Clark. 

 

ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU is an award winning poet, prose writer, playwright, performer and educator. He has published eight volumes of poetry, a spoken word EP, a book of short stories and has written for theatre. His poetry has appeared on various BBC programs over the past decade, while also featuring at the British Urban Film Awards and BBC 6 Music. In 2013 his poem Dialectics was interpreted and performed by Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. He is a judge for the 2016 BBC Young Writers Award and is currently the poet in residence at several London schools where he teaches poetry and creative writing. In 2015 his poetry and fiction writing won him the Groucho Maverick Award. He founded Out-Spoken in 2012 and has since launched Out-Spoken Press, a publishing house specialising in poetry, plays and critical writing. His work has subsequently been studied in universities, schools and colleges across the USA, U.K and Australia, as well as being translated into Spanish, German, French and Japanese.

Support to be confirmed shortly. 

Tickets are £4 concessions, £6 in advance, or £8 on the door, if available. Advance purchase recommended. Tickets can be bought online >>> HERE <<<

Adult content/language warning - 14yrs+ recommended. Licensed bar on site, only £3 a pint. Doors open at 7.30pm, show starts at 8pm and is finished by 11pm. This is a seated event.

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Anthony Anaxagorou // Wednesday 23rd November // BUY TICKETS HERE