Amazing last day at BBC Contains Strong Language Festival Performed a set with an amazing audience and finished with a freestyle inspired by something michellescallyclarke sent me 🙏🏽❤️ Honoured to have been on same bill as brilliant Cecilia Knapp & holy pants Toria Garbutt just 🔥🌟❤️💯 everyone🤯

It’s been an absolute dream meeting, performing with, and learning from some of the best poets in the UK and the world. My heart is full from these new poetic connections. Thank you BBC Contains Strong Language Festival, Leeds 2023 and the British Council for an incredible week.

Ian and Kadijah and Malaika at ⁦BBC Contains Strong Language Festival⁩ !

Thank you BBC Contains Strong Language Festival for inviting so many of the world’s great poets and other artists to Leeds this weekend such as those at this morning’s Poetry and the Planet event. #poetry #leeds #bbccslfest

Last event today for BBC Contains Strong Language Festival today - I'll be reading alongside Hannah Silva at the Wardrobe in Leeds thewardrobe.co.uk/event/bbc-cont…

Such a great time performing and enjoying other poet’s performances at the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival this weekend!
Lovely to meet members of the Queer Muslim Collective Verve Poetry Festival and seeing lush poets like Dr Kim Moore Malika Booker Lebogang Mashile Chris Tse Titilope Sonuga Ian Duhig FRSL 💚

MORNING! Live with BBC Radio 3 from LEEDS today with producers Les Pratt & olive clancy - the Contains Strong Language Festival is happening here all weekend check it out BBC Contains Strong Language Festival. Poet, musician, MC Testament is my guest + Delius, Liszt, Byrd, Nightports, Mozart 🎶

Another fantastic BBC Contains Strong Language Festival event at Howard Assembly Room #Leeds : lemn sissay OBE FRSL reading from his collection of short poems, Let The Light Pour In. Thought-provoking, moving, funny... pretty much all the bases covered. Photos show the poet in full performance mode - amazing!

Ian's got his show shirt on. He's all ready for our special live edition of The Verb in Leeds, onstage with Simon Armitage, Chris Tse, Hanan Issa and Titilope Sonuga - live at 10pm BBC Radio 3

Hope we get the applause! ⁦BBC Contains Strong Language Festival⁩ ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩

We have got a limited amount of tickets available for 'If on a Winter's night' Please speak to the box office
Leeds Playhouse
for tickets or book online. Get your tickets now to see Toby Jones Tim Crouch 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 and Indira Varma 📻 leedsplayhouse.org.uk/event/if-on-a-…

We’re the festival booksellers at the BBC Contains Strong Language BBC Contains Strong Language Festival festival! Drop by the Howard Assembly Room in Leeds to check out all these goodies 🥳📚😍

I can wholeheartedly recommend tuning into @BBCRaido4 on Monday for Start The Week featuring the wonderfully inspiring lemn sissay OBE FRSL and Lebogang Mashile 🤩 recorded today during BBC Contains Strong Language Festival 2023 👏

Early start for poetry BBC Contains Strong Language Festival at Howard Assembly Rooms as part of LEEDS 2023 can’t wait!

Calling all poetry fans!

Hear 6 fantastic LGBTQIA+ poets from India and the UK sharing new work as part of Language Is A Queer Thing, live BBC Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds

Friday 22 Sept, 3:30pm
Leeds Central Library

Tickets:
bbc.co.uk/events/edb84f/…
#LIAQT The Queer Muslim Project Verve Poetry Festival

Only 3 days left until Contains Strong Language Festival arrives in Leeds 🥳 We still have tickets left, make sure to click the link in our bio to see our amazing poets and performers at #cslfest 🎉

Working on the introductions and questions for the four (count ‘em) editions of The Verb we’ll be making at the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds next weekend! What a mixture of poetry and performance; I’ll see you all there and on BBC Radio 3 !

One Week Away ✨⁠
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The The Laurel Prize 2023 Ceremony, Fri 22 Sep at 3.30 pm (BST). Part of BBC Contains Strong Language Festival 🌍⁠

⁠Readings from our shortlist: Liza Katz Duncan @autumnhousepress, Jorie Graham, Holly Hopkins, Zaffar Kunial, Yvonne Reddick.

⁠bit.ly/3r4FsNu

One Week Away ✨⁠
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The Laurel Prize 2023 Ceremony, Fri 22 Sep at 3.30 pm (BST). Part of BBC Contains Strong Language Festival 🌍⁠

⁠Readings from our shortlist: Liza Katz Duncan @autumnhousepress, Jorie Graham, Holly Hopkins, Zaffar Kunial, Yvonne Reddick.

⁠bit.ly/3r4FsNu