Spoken Word Meets Carnival
Renaissance One’s We LimingOn the 60th Anniversary of the Bristol Bus Boycott, Renaissance One presents We Liming– an evening of Caribbean poetry and music at Bristol Old Vic, headlined by the legendary John Agard.
We Liming is a party of spoken word, poets, wordsmiths, calypsonians and a house DJ, who invite you to join in and go with the flow.
Featuring poets all of Caribbean heritage, the performers carry personal and myriad definitions of what the Windrush Generation and Caribbeanness means to them.
The event will be co-hosted by Dr. Edson Burton and Melanie Abrahams, and headlining will be legendary poet and playwright John Agard FRSL, alongside intergenerational Bristol-based and international artists.
The lineup includes calypsonian musician Tobago Crusoe, poet and artist Valda Jackson via her actor daughter Georgia Jackson, as well as Muneera Pilgrim, Lawrence Hoo and other local poets.
This event will be BSL interpreted and is part of Lyra Poetry Festival.
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John Agard
John Agard is a poet, playwright and short story writer who grew up in Guyana, where his love of language sparked from listening to cricket commentaries on the radio. He is well-known for his playful style and charismatic performances. Over his long career he has won many prizes, including the Smarties Book Prize, the Queen’s Gold Medal, and the prestigious BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding contribution to children’s literature. He is widely studied on the National Curriculum.
In 2022, Agard had 5 new works published. This includes three books for children: When Creature Met Creature, Windrush Child and Follow that Word; also a poetry collection for adults, Border Zone, and his first-ever collection of short stories, Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and Other Stories. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
His poems are direct and arresting, playful, full of startling imagery, and are hilarious, passionate and erotic as often as they are political – often managing to be all these things at once.
Maura Dooley
The work of a poet with a clear lyric ear and a quirky historical conscience
Guardian
