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Spoken word poetry by Testament | 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Sep 6

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Spoken word poetry by Testament | 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Sep 6

Sat 6th Sep 2025 15:30

Location

Grainstore, Mount Briscoe, Mullalough, Daingean, Offaly, R35 N729, Ireland

Contact

Margaret Edgill
E-mail: mountbriscoe@gmail.com
Website: www.mountbriscoe.ie
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Testament will share the fruits of an unexpected farmer-poet encounter "The Lig". Testament is a writer, rapper, educator and world record breaking beatboxer.

Testament is writer of awards nominated play Black Men Walking (Best Play UK
Theatre Awards, Best New Play Writer’s Guild of Great Britain) and Orpheus In The
Record Shop which was broadcast on BBC Four TV.

As a poet Testament was Black Nature Writer-in Residence for the Yorkshire Dales
2024, and part the award-winning Hot Poets eco-poetry collective. He is also a
contributor to the acclaimed Gifts of Gravity & Light: A Nature Almanac for the 21st
Century (Hodder Books) 2021.

Testament’s diverse work includes spoken word, composing music for award winning
adverts, writing musicals, performing at Downing Street, making radio history
documentaries, nature essays and freestyle rapping for Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Testament has had numerous TV appearances on BBC, ITV and Sky Arts and has
been the guest host on Radio 4 poetry show The Verb twice. His poetic radio drama
Daughter won Special Commendation at the BBC Audiodrama Awards 2022 and was
nominated for the Prix Europa.

He was 2019 Channel 4 Writer-in-Residence for The Royal Exchange Theatre
Manchester

As a facilitator, Testament runs the HIP-HOP CLINIC - a workshop that company that
runs rap, poetry and beatbox workshops around the world. He has also worked with
BBC Bitesize and presented GCSE Poetry podcasts.

Currently, he is a writer on the hit Top 10 NETFLIX animated show Castlevania
Nocturne.

Ticket Options
Spoken word peotry by Testament | 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Sep 6

This event is included in your General Admission Ticket

Free
Total: €
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testament by Humans of Leeds

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