Patience Agbabi



Popular performance poet, born in London, based in the South East. Her work as a poet also extends into media – including music, film & video

Patience's work has been described as 'thrilling. [With] a multi-dimensional richness ... bold, brassy work' Independent on Sunday

Her books include Transformatrix (Payback 2000), R.A.W (Gekko 1995) & a new collection - Bloodshot Monochrome (Payback 2008)

Patience's poem - What's Black, White and Red All Over? - is featured on the poetry jukebox & her work is sampled in more depth in the CD Poetry in Performance Volume 1

Patience's work is available on the iPoems system - plus the newly produced flash-animation of the poem Transformatrix

57 Productions artists

Benjamin Zephaniah

Jean 'Binta' Breeze

Adrian Mitchell

Patience Agbabi

John Hegley

Billy Childish

Michael Rosen