Scroll through to see a selection of our completed projects
(We are working to get all of our projects back online – please bear with us)
Surge – Jay Bernard
Surge is a poetic performance explorating of what came after the 1981 New Cross Fire using poetry, archive film and audio. Find out more…
Another Great Night Out – Joshua Idehen
A project documenting and remembering lost community spaces of London as gentrification swallows up creative venues – starting with Passing Clouds. Find out more…
Writing the Everyday Stories of a Diverse Britain – Colin Grant
Journalist, historian and award-winning author Colin Grant work with older people from Caribbean communities to help the Windrush Generation tell their own stories. Find out more…
A Windrush Legacy – Anthony Joseph
In 2018, Anthony Joseph published and toured Kitch, his fictionalised biography of calypso legend Lord Kitchener, to tie in with the 70th anniversary of the Empire Windrush’s arrival in Britain. Find out more…
Mixtape – Nick Makoha and Roger Robinson
Poets and friends Nick Makoha and Roger Robinson created a show using the music, art, culture and family influences that shape their lives to present their poetry. Find out more…
Breaking Ground: Celebrating Writers of Colour
A booklet resource featuring 200 of the best contemporary British writers of colour, and international showcases of a selection of those writers in six European countries. Find out more…
Breaking Ground USA
The beginning of our Breaking Ground project: taking 10 black British writers on two tours to the East and West Coasts of the USA. Find out more…
Poetry Parnassus UK Tour
When the London 2012 Olympics brought a poet from every Olympic country to the capital, Speaking Volumes took at group of them further afield. Find out more…
Ber/Lon – A Tale of Two (Gentrifying) Cities
Artists Joshua Idehen and Adelaide Ivánova, Johny Pitts and Joanna Legid as they confront issues of gentrification in the London and Berlin neighbourhoods at the forefront of change, exploring them through multilingual poetry and prose, photography and music. Find out more…
Come On In: Life Journeys
Six poets and musicians collaborated, interviewing people who use a range of places – a train station, a women’s centre and an urban community farm – and created a performance of poem songs about the lives they discover. Find out more…
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