Brum Radio Poets February: with Rick Sanders, Richard O'Brien and Jemima Hughes (19/02/2019)

Richard O’Brien's publications include 'The Emmores' (The Emma Press, 2014) and 'A Bloody Mess' (Valley Press, 2015), and currently works as a Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare and Creativity at the University of Birmingham. He has also been a commissioning editor at the Emma Press, and is the Birmingham Poet Laureate 2018-2020.
He has a sequence called 'Closed Doors' upcoming in an American magazine, 'Subtropics'. He’s working on a couple of sequences about a 60s experiment where someone tried to teach a dolphin to speak English, and a long poetic retelling of 'Jurassic World’.

Jemima Hughes is a spoken word artist whose work emphasises mental health awareness and covers taboo subjects such as sexual violence, self-harm and suicide. She takes you on a journey through her own experiences with the aim encouraging conversation.
Always a gripping performance, Jemima will leave you questioning whether she meant to do that, or whether she needs to go and have a lie down.