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| BSPF 10 - John Hegley and Malika Booker |
Organiser: Bristol Spring Poetry Festival
Start time: 8.00pm Sun 2 May 2010
Website:http://www.poetrycan.co.uk
Telephone Number: 0117 933 0900
Description: John Hegley with special guest Malika Booker
John Hegley was born in Newington Green, North London, and was educated in Luton, Bristol and Bradford University. His first public performance monies came from busking his songs, initially outside a shoe shop in Hull, in the late Seventies. He performed on the streets of London in the early Eighties, fronting the Popticians, with whom he also recorded two sessions for John Peel, and has since been a frequent performer of his words, sung and spoken, on both local and national radio. He has produced ten books of verse and prose pieces, two CDs and one mug, but his largest source of income is from stages on his native island. An Edinburgh Festival regular, he is noted for his exploration of such diverse topics as dog hair, potatoes, handkerchiefs and the misery of human existence. He once performed in a women's prison in Columbia.
Malika Booker is a spellbinding writer, poet, performer and storyteller from the UK, Grenada, Guayana and Trinidad. She has been enthralling audiences for 18 years with her searing character monologues and beguiling poetry. Her sensuous performances are moving and funny, either they creep up and punch you in the stomach or they cause your heart to skip a beat, waiting to find out which one is half the fun.
Admission: £10.00
Address: Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol
BS1 4QA
Email: [email protected]
Accessibility: fully accessible
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