Joel McKerrow is an internationally touring performance poet, writer, speaker, educator and community arts worker based out of Melbourne, Australia. He is the Artist Ambassador for the aid and development organisation ‘TEAR Australia’ and was the co-founder of community arts organisation, 'The Centre for Poetics and Justice' (2010-2013). Joel was the third ever Australian representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships in the USA (2012), was invited to perform his own show at the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC, was invited to perform at the Sydney Opera House at the Australian National Poetry Slam Finals in 2013 and is a TEDx speaker and performer. He is also the frontman poet from the band, 'Joel McKerrow & the Mysterious few' and spends much of his time running poetry workshops within schools and other organisations around poetry, creativity, identity, social justice and spirituality.

Joel has been touring extensively throughout Australia and the world (USA, UK, EUROPE, NEW ZEALAND) over the last few years on the Global Poetics tour (2011), the Please Resist Me tour (2012), the Soles of Australia tour (2012), the One Foot in the Clay global tour (2012-13) and the These Wandering Feet tour (2013). Throughout this time he has performed alongside such poetry greats as Anis Mojgani, Shane Koyczan, Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, Ken Arkind, Buddy Wakefield, Mahogany Brown, Jive Poetic, Carrie Rudzinski and Luka Lesson. 

With a passionate performance style he has been commended by Canadian performance poet Shane Koyczan as, ‘an exceptional spoken word artist…fiercely political and humane’. And by the Australian National Poetry Slam Champion, Luka Lesson, as, ‘a true leader in Australia's performance poetry scene…A man who can tear a roof down with his performances and bring tears with his subtle eloquence’. Brian McLaren (Author and activist) has also said, ‘In a time when politics, theology, and other important avenues of human intercourse suffer from a flatness of prose and a vacuum of meaning, Joel walks on stage just when we need him, sounding off with all the craft of a first-rate poet and all the verve of a first-rate performer.’

Joel, in 2012, released his first published book Beyond Rhetoric – Writings in the Tradition of Kahlil Gibran (published by UNOH publishing with foreword by Fr. Richard Rohr) and his debut spoken word album One Foot in the Clay. In 2013 he released his second spoken word album and first straight book of poetry both named These Wandering Feet: Reflection from a travelling pilgrim (released through The Poatina Tree label).

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Spoken word performer and poetry workshop leader. Agnes Török is a Swedish poet working and living in Edinburgh, the winner of multiple Poetry Slams in three different countries and two different languages. Török has been featured as a TED speaker, headlined at multiple international poetry festivals and been commissioned by the BBC. Her two one-woman spoken word shows 'Sorry I Don't Speak Culture' (2014) and 'If You're Happy and You Know It - Take This Survey' (2015) have both won awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2015, Török published her acclaimed debut spoken word album 'poetry//resistance' available for worldwide purchase on https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AgnesTorokPoetry?ref=hdr_shop_menu

More details: www.agnestorok.org
Contact for bookings: agnes@agnestorok.org
Poetry collections for purchase: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AgnesTorokPoetry?ref=hdr_shop_menu

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