Live Breaking News & Updates on National Youth Poetry Slam Champion

Saturday 20 February 2021, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Free
This event has passed, but can be re-watched on YouTube below.
The Poetry Society is delighted to present the latest Young Poets Takeover at the second edition of the
Festival of Hope, a Versopolis Global Poetry Festival. This event will be headlined by four outstanding young writers who have won Young Poets Network challenges:
Natalie Linh Bolderston,
Jack Cooper, Matt Sowerby and
Oluwaseun Matiluko. Each poet will be performing a set that speaks up against injustice, aligning with the 2021 Versopolis Festival’s theme of ‘speaking up’. The festival aims to address the situation in which humanity is facing a global revaluation of the ability to tell the truth, speak up and be heard. ....

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