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Roger Robinson

From Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidadian Roger Robinson was a founder member of the now defunct Urban Poets Society and of Chocolate Art. He was also programme coordinator at Apples & Snakes poetry until 2000. Roger has travelled all over the world as an ambassador for new British writing and is a tireless poetry activist and educator on the London scene. He regularly mixes poetry and music, and has opened for Run DMC and De La Soul and toured with Attica Blues and Speeka.