Leyla Josephine - Dear John Berger || Spoken Word Poetry ||

Описание: Congratulation to Leyla Josephine, winner of the Forward Prize for the Best Single Poem – Performed 2024! Leyla has long been a leading light of the Scottish spoken word scene and it's fantastic to see her get the recognition she deserves.

We're also incredibly proud that for the second year running, a performance we filmed at one of our Loud Poets events has won this prestigious award! Watch Leyla's winning performance here, filmed live at our 2023 Loud Poets: Best of Fringe run at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

Leyla Josephine is a poet, film and theatre maker from Glasgow. Her theatre show Daddy Drag was the winner of 2019 Autopsy Award celebrating artists making ground-breaking work in Scotland, her spoken-word show Hopeless was shortlisted for Saboteur’s Best Spoken Word show 2017. Her Creative Scotland-funded poetry book In Public/In Private was released in 2022 with Burning Eye Books, and she was mentored by Kim Addonizio through the process. In 2022 she developed a play The Belly & The Beast with National Theatre of Scotland through The John Mathers Rising Star Theatre Award and her play Ms Campbell’s Class 4th Period was published with Bloomsbury Press in 2023 and performed globally as part of Wonderfools Positive Stories for Negative Times. Her spoken word album Archive:Live! was released in 2020.

Learn more about Leyla Josephine's work via her website, www.leylajosephine.co.uk

Order Leyla's poetry collection 'In Public/In Private' (Burning Eye Books 2022): https://www.leylajosephine.co.uk/shop...

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