“Clear that man’s name. He doesn’t lie!” I have just asked George the Poet, aka George Mpanga, a question that has been bugging me for almost two years. A friend of mine once got into an ...

George The Poet has shared a profound message to Black America for the US Presidential elections – see what he had to say below. The London-born African poet and artist took to social media last ...

Spoken-word artist says he can’t be “member” of British Empire George the Poet, the spoken word artist and award-winning podcast creator, has said he turned down an MBE because of the "pure ...

George the Poet says police strip-searched him for no reason after a gig. "They handcuffed me and said they needed to search my car for weapons," he said. "They were being very rude, putting hands ...

In BBC Radio 4's Welcome to the World of George the Poet, a recent live show with some high-profile friends at the BBC’s Radio Theatre, George discusses how rap made him the man he is today ...

Much to the dismay of music fans everywhere Glastonbury was cancelled for the second year running in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic However that doesnt mean that there wouldnt be any ...

Spoken word first kicked off with the American Beat Poet movement that took place in the 1940s and 1950s. This saw a group of authors in New York using their work to exploring and influence the ...

The point is the wind.” That patient waiting and listening results in meticulously honed poems that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove has praised for their “exquisitely spare meditation.” Jenny ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

His reputation now is of a poet, painter and mystic aligned with ... for settlement but at best a footnote, at worst a folly. George Russell had been staying at Edward MacLysaght’s farm in ...

fellow inaugural poet Maya Angelou, and America’s first president, George Washington. The poet told US radio station NPR she deeply researched her work by reading American literature and ...