Changing the world one poem at a time.
Welcome to the blog of The Poetry Exchanges, a partnership project run by poetry collectives – Spoken & Born Lippy. Ten poets from two cities will collaborate over six months to co-create five spoken-word videos to inspire social change. Follow their story here.
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The project in progress…
The Poetry Exchanges Videos
Throughout lockdown, ten poets from Born Lippy (Newcastle) and Spoken (London) Collectives met, researched, wrote & rehearsed poems about social issues important to them. Filmmaker – Davey Poremda (Fly Films) brought their message to life by creating five hard hitting videos. The five videos will be released one at a time, every Friday at 2pm…
The Poetry Exchange Event
WEDNESDAY APRIL 7TH 7.30-9.30PM Born Lippy & Spoken present -THE POETRY EXCHANGE Live and direct from a stage to your living room. Over Ssix months poets from Newcastle & London have visited each others cities to co-create spoken word to inspire social change. This night will be the premier of of those poems performed alongside…
What’s it all about?
This blog is dedicated to documenting the Poetry Exchange – an exciting partnership project between poets from Newcastle and London, enabling them to visit each others’ cities to write and co-create spoken word videos to inspire social change. The project is led by two collectives – Born Lippy (Newcastle) and Spoken (London) who both run…
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Documenting the story of a poetry exchange between two spoken word collectives 