Ep. 84 - Thomas "Ghetto Geek" Owoo; Andra Simons; Poetry Unplugged 20yrs (transcript available)

This episode is in three parts: Part 1 - Thomas "Ghetto Geek" Owoo is at Poetry at the PAD in Dagenham. We hear three poems from his feature set before he is joined on stage by the evening's host, The Repeat Beat Poet, and they chat about his writing practice. www.twitter.com/imaghettogeek www.facebook.com/imaghettogeek www.twitter.com/ThePADtv www.facebook.com/thepadtv Part 2 (31:42)- David Turner is talking to poet and performer Andra Simons about identity and how this informs his writing. Image of Andra taken by Joao Trindade. www.andrasimons.wordpress.com Part 3 (1:06:34)- A recording taken from the 20th anniversary celebrations of the weekly open-mic night Poetry Unplugged. The night (and this part of the episode) was broken into three sections. Section 1 - (1:07:49) Paul Birtill (1:09:01) Dean Wilson (1:10:09) Tim Wells (1:11:20) Jason King (1:13:49) Tamsin Kendrick (1:15:59) Jon Citizen Section 2 - (1:17:15) Graham Buchan (1:18:40) Deryll Walsh (1:19:50) John Stiles (1:21:11) Jeremy Quinn (1:22:38) Project Adorno (1:23:58) Carl Dhiman Section 3 - (1:25:43) Joshua Idehen (1:29:27) Nadia Drews (1:33:02) Anna Kahn (1:36:23) The Bros Grim (1:37:26) Niall O'Sullivan www.facebook.com/poetryunpluggedlondon poetryunplugged@gmail.com A transcript of this episode is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/interview-with-andra-simons-thomas-owoo-lpp-transcript-ep84.pdf