commissions

a poem for the occasion.

Do you need a poem for a wedding, a birthday, for an inaugural event, film, documentary, TV, online, radio, public art piece, album or a book? Commissions can range from £50 to £10,000, from a haiku to a sonnet, a ballad to an epic, and Inua has a wealth of experiences to draw from.

Past clients include: Good Magazine, Orelabar Brown, Mr & Mrs Augustus-Chase, Chris Ofili, Louis Vuitton, BBC Radio 4, Tate Modern, BBC's Politics Show, Southbank Centre, The Africa Report and Houses of Parliament. To get a quote, drop him a line here.

workshops

learn more. play more. 

Trained by national poetry organisation, Apples & Snakes in their Poets In Education Scheme, Inua further developed his skills as facilitator by travelling the world and running accessible classes for educational, arts and corporate organisations from Malaysia to Australia, Libya to South Africa. He has worked with all ages from Primary to University, teaching various aspects of poetry & playwriting, or using them to teach history, mathematics and philosophy. Download a sample workshop plan here and drop him a line here.

judging

a wholistic approach.

Most recently, Inua worked on the UK National University Poetry Slam, The Roundhouse Poetry Slam, Faber New Poets, Australia’s Poetry Idol 2014 and Wasafiri’s New Writing Prize 2014– judging poetry, prose and life-writing.

His approach is methodical and nuanced; he dissects work into various aspects, scores each individually, before assessing overall, thereby ensuring artworks are praised for their inner workings and the sum of their parts. To find out if he is available, drop him a line here.

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