Ian Henery Blog
Gerald Kells, poet and environmentalist from Walsall, goes from strength to strength after winning the Café Grande Poetry Slam in December in Dudley.
At January’s Café Grande Birthday Party he performed two longer poems, a chance encounter with a Minotaur and the story of a friend, tragically killed in a hate crime.
And in February he took the audience on a poetic tour starting with the startling question: ‘How Many Toes Had a Gnu?’ to a Spitfire in the Birmingham Science Museum to a Programme for ‘Juno and the Paycock’, when his dad trod the amateur stage.
At the same time, he’s had new poems published in Panoply and Seashores.
He keeps popping up round the Black Country and Birmingham and is well worth seeing or why not ask him to do a set?
Never dull, always thought-provoking, certainly a poet we think is worth watching…
