Writing

Actress Shola Adewusi performed my poems 'You Sounds So White' and 'Standard English' at the Dial Up open mic in 2013. I'm so glad we were able to get her brilliant performances on film, directed by the wonderful Frederick D. Stephenson. If you're a Dial Up regular, do look out for yourself in the audience!

You Sound So White

 

Did anyone tell you, you sound so white?

I was telling Tarquin the other night

When I heard you talking on the phone

I swore I knew you from back home

And then I saw, well, obviously

But, stone the crows you could have fooled me!

 

You sound so crisp, you sound so white

You sound uncommonly erudite

You clip, you plum, you enunciate

You make it sound like the accent’s innate.

 

So what’s the score? So where’d you learn?

You can’t have talked like that full-term.

You’re the English villain, clever and callous

You’re just like the queen in Buckingham palace.

Public school, perchance? The Eton slammer?

Honestly, just your local Grammar?

Well, that makes sense. Not being impolite,

But I honestly thought that you could have been white.

Calibre, a charity which provides audio books to people with visual impairment, asked me to record a video for their celebration of World Book Night 2020. Here it is for anyone who fancies a quick intro to my books!

One Day On The Train, my comic one act play, was filmed at Southwark Playhouse in 2011.

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Secular Verses

Wendy the Whale

Black Iris

His Hidden Wings

Reviews of 'Gust' performed as part of Pen Fed 2017 by West End Wilma and London Theatre