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Toby Campion

@TobyCampion

Poet / Playwright / Director of @Uni_Slam / Bookings: [email protected] he/him

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Joined January 2015
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Queer-led writing workshops in London start May 21. 7 weeks of creative exercises, new texts, & community with poet Toby Campion @TobyCampion. All levels welcome, all forms too. £155–£185 📍Opificium, N16 9DA Book: buff.ly/PjAh1R9 Follow: @verse.london
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Honoured to win this year’s @AestheticaMag Creative Writing Award for Poetry. Big love to the Aesthetica team and judges. The award anthology is brilliant, link to get one below
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@AestheticaMag9 Dec 2024
We are delighted to announce that this year's winning poem from the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is 'When someone asks if I think I’ll have children I whip out the Tarot' by @TobyCampion. Congratulations to Toby on such a powerful piece. Find out more: l.muz.kr/hZj
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FMcM@FMcMAssociates21 Nov 2024
💛 MONDAY 25TH NOV 💛 London's most exciting new poetry night returns to @thesocial for an unmissable evening of verse. 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/scarlett-… • @ScarlettSabet • @TobyCampion • @SusannahDickey • @evediariden_ • @EllaFrears • @LisaDMKelly • @bruceyates
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Come to @thesocial next Monday for this amazing lineup ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Very excited to announce the return of Scarlett Sabet Curates at @thesocial on Mon 25th Nov with an unmissable line up of poets! ✨💛 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/scarlett-sa… • @ScarlettSabet • @TobyCampion • @SusannahDickey • @evediariden_ • @EllaFrears • @LisaDMKelly • @bruceyates
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FMcM@FMcMAssociates6 Nov 2024
Very excited to announce the return of Scarlett Sabet Curates at @thesocial on Mon 25th Nov with an unmissable line up of poets! ✨💛 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/scarlett-sa… • @ScarlettSabet • @TobyCampion • @SusannahDickey • @evediariden_ • @EllaFrears • @LisaDMKelly • @bruceyates
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It’s The Forward Prizes Ceremony Tonight! Hear these 20 fantastic poets at the top of their game at @GalaDurham or via live-stream. Starts 7pm, live-stream tickets must be booked before 6pm⏰ newwritingnorth.com/event/an…
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Twenty of the best poets writing and performing today, all in one night! Watch Forward Prizes Ceremony in-person at @GalaDurham, or tune-in via live stream, and discover the perfect mix-tape of what’s happening in the poetry scene. Tickets: newwritingnorth.com/event/an…
Faces of the twenty poets shortlisted in The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2025

ALT Faces of the twenty poets shortlisted in The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2025

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@Hamza_a963 Aug 2024
Sickens me that for 10 months we marched peacefully to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and we were framed and smeared as violent, divisive and driven by hate. Then actual fascists start rioting, looting and engaging in racist violence and there’s barely a murmur.
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BBC this morning: •Gov will hold emergency meeting into the violent disorder over the weekend • "In Bolton anti immigration protesters were confronted by …. 300 masked people shouting allahu akbar" Our media is complicit in Islamophobia.
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You know who isn’t in jail? Bosses of companies who poisoned our waters while making record profits
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@SkyNews18 Jul 2024
BREAKING: Five Just Stop Oil protesters, including one of its co-founders, have been jailed - with one sentenced to five years and the other to four news.sky.com/story/just-stop…
Five 'fanatic' Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for plot to block M25

Five 'fanatic' Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for plot to block M25

Prosecutors alleged the protests, during which 45 people climbed up the gantries, had an economic cost of at least £765,000, while the cost to the Metropolitan Police was more than £1.1m.

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Honoured to be on this shortlist 🩷@ForwardPrizes
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‘Cher coming last in a Cher look-alike competition’ - I love this poem by ⁦@TobyCampion⁩
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We're edging ever closer to June's Jawdance... Join us for an incredible night of poetry from @StacyMakishi @antoniajadeking @punkofcolour & @TobyCampion + an open mic opportunity! 📅 Wednesday 19 June 🕖 7pm 📍 @RichMixLondon 🎟️ bit.ly/3U4Gt2h #PoetryNight #Jawdance
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Rich Mix@RichMixLondon7 Jun 2024
Don't miss an EPIC line up for Jawdance on Wed 19 Jun! 🎤🎤 London’s biggest spoken word night returns with host @TobyCampion and guest poets Jay Mitra (@punkofcolour), @antoniajadeking & Stacy Makish. Book now > richmix.org.uk/events/jawdan…
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@Lowkey0nline4 Jun 2024
"We may as well have a Tory if we have a person like you!" Remember the time Audrey White gave Keir Starmer some home truths in Liverpool.
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It’s time for youth. The destruction of Suella Braverman by someone of total integrity. Young people are the voices of humanity.
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🎤 Excitement is building for the ultimate showdown! Our expert judging panel, including @cerysmatthews, @yomiadegoke, and @Vanessa_Kisuule, will be at the Roundhouse Poetry Slam Final. Hosted by @itsanitarani and @tobycampion, this event promises to be one for the books 🤩
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The Palestinians being pulled from the rubble in Rafah are being pulled piece by piece. The bombing is so intensely that it’s crushing people into pieces.
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The richest Prime Minister in history – worth an estimated £529,000,000 – is demonising sick and disabled people. He wants us to blame our problems on anyone but the real culprits: The Tory government, their super-rich donors, and a system that puts greed before human need.
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