Joolz Denby, Panya Banjoko & Sophie Sparham

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The multiple award winning Joolz Denby’s work is featured in teaching aids for schools, notably Michael Rosen’s ‘Why Poetry? She has performed at five Edinburgh Festivals and 25 Glastonbury Festival. She is an experienced broadcaster, novelist and has also released albums of her poetry set to music by Jah Wobble, Justin Sullivan, Mik Davis and her latest album, Crow, with renowned German composer Henning Nuge.

Panya Banjoko is an established writer and performance poet with work broadcast on both television and radio. Panya won the 2008 Black Women in the Arts Poetry Award in London. It has been said of her work, ‘…What you get when listening to Panya is a profound sense of listening to a teacher. Her poetry is hip-hop energy fused with a hymnal element. Her trademark is a penchant for grand themes in small sentences. There’s lots of shrewd thought but its poetry we can all grasp without the need to constantly hit the rewind button.’ Sable Magazine

Sophie Sparham is a spoken word artist and writer based in Derby. Her work has been featured in the People’s History Museum and UK Young Artists Festival. Her poetry mainly focuses on political and social subjects, such as depression, LGBT+ and feminism. Sophie’s debut poetry collection ‘Please Mind the Gap’ is available now and features a foreword from Benjamin Zephaniah.