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robin vaughan-williams

me, my poetry, and I

biography

Robin is a poet, poetry producer, and author of The Manager, a sequence of poems that charts the backwaters of managerial reality. He has a background in live literature, with events like Spoken Word Antics (Sheffield), Word of Mouth, and Jazz and Poetry (Nottingham), and runs collaborative poetry improvisation workshops.

He has set up three festivals—Nottingham Festival of Words (2013), Creative Mile in Brentford (2021), and New Gen Festival in Ealing (2022)—and worked with organisations like Nottingham Writers’ Studio, Creative People and Places, and Ealing Council to support creative communities and broaden participation.

Some recent projects include:

Robin hosted the Spoken Word Antics Radio Show on SheffieldLive for two years, and has collaborated with artists on music and poetry (Ella Luk Project), film poems (Alban Low), and an auto-generative CCTV script (James Coupe). He has run workshops for organisations like Aphasia Nottingham, Sheffield Young Writers, and Apples and Snakes, and his poems have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Under the Radar, Long Poem Magazine, Acumen, Dream Catcher, and Anthropocene.

publications

some past performances

literature productions

For a full list of radio programmes, see the Spoken Word Antics Radio Show.

collaborations

other roles and awards

in the media

Summer Poetry Jam, Kaffi Rót, Reykjavík, May 2009

Summer Poetry Jam, Kaffi Rót, Reykjavík, 22 May 2009

Verbiage flier, 17 Oct 2004



Demolition in the Cathedral, 22 Oct 2005



Borderlines flier, February 2005



Life 2.0, 17 Oct 2008



Spoken Word Antics flier



Word of Mouth: Nottingham and the World, 19 May 2011