Spit the Atom

London-based poetry collective. Born from #WordsFirst by @1Xtra & @RoundhouseLDN |
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[Roundhouse Resident Artists 2016-17]

[The Sugar & Dread Podcast @SugarAndDread]

It's Monday! What's good?
This is:

🚨 #NEWPODCAST 🚨

Episode 59: Mixed

S/O @duolingo cos this week it's Top 5 Languages.
Then for Some Poems we go deep & talk perceived identity with two gems by old faves, @Sherlock_Omez & @KayoChingonyi

Enjoy 🌍

https://t.co/nuxBNCYiDw

[Bayan @bayan_bdg]

The loves at Sugar and Dread are holding a competition and giving away 4 amazing books.

Even if you’re not entering yourself, please retweet and show some love by listening to the latest episode 💛

[Amani Saeed @amanithepoet]

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being...None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.” - Toni Morrison @fka_j & @leokalyan

[Jemilea Wisdom-Baako MA, @PoeticJemz]

come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed. - Lucille Clifton

@ShadeJoseph
@assumpta_v

[Rachael Twumasi-Corson @RaeCorson]

Get involved! 👇🏾

[Jake Wild-Acre Hall @JakeWildHall]

This is an awesome give away get on it.

“Or if sometimes people remove there clothes when they want to remove there skin” Amy Acre

and I’ll tag @amyacrepoet and @antoniaking

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It's #IWD !
Which means...

#NEWPODCAST
Episode 54: Shout Out Women

It's Top 5 Mythical Creatures, then BARS by: @RuffneckRefugee, @__hibaq, @Theresa_Lola,
@tanianwachukwu, Anita Barton-Williams, @rachelnalong, @maryjean_chan & @victoriaadukwei

Enjoy📚
https://t.co/Qou7wuQWpH

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HAPPY #IWD!
🙌🏻🙌🏼🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿
To celebrate, we're giving away these four amazing books* by:
@__hibaq, Octavia Butler, @rachelnalong & @theresa_lola

Interested ? 👀
To win, RT with a favourite quote by a woman writer & tag two friends

You have til Wed 10 March at 23:59

Let's GO

[Tess Barry @tessbarry88]

Thanks to fabulous @SugarAndDread podcast and @ceberesforddunne for including my poem💕💕!

[Laurie Ogden @ogdenlaurie]

The most wholesome episode of @SugarAndDread feat. the exceptionally calming voices of @caesura & @cberesforddunne is well worth a listen. The number one fairytale 🤯
https://t.co/5nTULb140h

[The Sugar & Dread Podcast @SugarAndDread]

Merry Monday!

It's a Bank Holiday, so rest up with

EPISODE 44:
❄️Winter SZN❄️
ft. Anita Barton-Williams & @victoriaadukwei

This week's guests share Top 5 Fruits & Sayings from Childhood, some amazing poems, & work by @tapiwanmugabe & #LindaGregg

https://t.co/Qou7wuQWpH

[The Sugar & Dread Podcast @SugarAndDread]

Wow. Winter's back, huh? Well, so are we:
🚨 #NEWPODCAST 🚨

EPISODE 37: He’s Spittin Still 📚

Go grab your glasses cos this week is Top 5 book recommendations to bury your brains in, then Poems by two textual titans: @Old_Sharon & @jsamlarose

Enjoy ❄️

https://t.co/Qou7wuzly9

[Matt Abbott | Poet @mattabbottpoet]

Tomorrow night I'm joined by @GabrielAkamo for this week's Insta session. A @BYPoets alumni and former @RoundhouseLDN poetry collective member with @SpitTheAtom, amongst a whole host of other things. Can't wait 👌🏼

[The Sugar & Dread Podcast @SugarAndDread]

Right. Let's get down to business:

🚨#NEWPODCAST🚨
EPISODE 29: Mutual Respect

We go to childhood again via Top 5 @Disney Animated Films, then to a whole new world with some stunning #poems from @MarkBibbins and Roger Robinson (@rrobinson72)

Enjoy!

https://t.co/Qou7wuzly9

[The Sugar & Dread Podcast @SugarAndDread]

NEW POD NEW POD 🚨

We read poems this week from @WilliePerdomo and Ocean Vuong because damn, have you read their work?

There���s a few too many villains inna real life so we’re giving you our top 5 tv villains this pod too!

Ep 15 is up now

https://t.co/nuxBNCGHLY

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🚨🚨🚨 EPISODE 16 is here!

What’s your favourite fruit? (If it’s not you know what then we know not wah gwarn for you.)

We read and discuss some poems this week from @maggiesmithpoet and @RaymondAntrobus

Go and have a listen x

https://t.co/nuxBNCGHLY

[The Sugar & Dread Podcast @SugarAndDread]

Episode 17 is here people!

The condiments of condiments is crowned.

We read poems this week from @aja_monet and @mafiasafia. These poets bring our discussion to the love in hands and wordlessness in language as well as a bunch of other places.

https://t.co/nuxBNCGHLY

[The Sugar & Dread Podcast @SugarAndDread]

‘Episode 18: Incredibly Biased’ is here!

This week we rank our Top 5 London Boroughs and Ofc we’re completely impartial 🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️

Some Poems comes from Anita Barton-Williams and @jamilawoods. They’re both absolute gems of poems

https://t.co/nuxBNCGHLY

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Episode 19: ‘Can’t Right If You Don’t Write’ is here!

For this week's Top 5, inspired by #worldcupofchocolate, we’re choosing our chocolate champion.

And we get stuck into the amazing poetry of @Sherlock_Omez and @Free_KGD.
https://t.co/nuxBNCGHLY

[The Sugar & Dread Podcast @SugarAndDread]

Listen to Omar Bynon’s “I Go For Long Walks Now”. We read it on the pod, now hear it in his own voice
https://t.co/UchHZqQmjE