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🗓️ 30 November 2014
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Anthony Anaxagorou is a 31 yr old Poet, writer, performer and educator of Cypriot origin from North LondonAnthony began writing at the age of 14 influenced by both hip-hop and folk music and at 17 won the London Mayors Poetry Slam and LATER went on to perform on the BBC many times
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0:00.0 | This week on London Real we have the poets, writer, performer and educator Anthony Anaxagoro. |
0:08.0 | You commit yourself and you write and you're honest and you become vulnerable and you're insecure and you tell the truth and it's done and for half an hour you feel reborn. |
0:18.0 | It's a sadness and it's like lamenting and it just sits in the back of your spirit and it just taps you on the shoulder every now and then and says |
0:25.8 | Do something about this if everybody actually asked themselves for a second why do I actually think like this I think half the world will be a much better place. You can't go to |
0:37.1 | the job center and say, hi man, I want to be a poet. I try and write when I feel it's |
0:42.0 | what has to be done that feeling that happens within that very short time |
0:46.2 | frame be at the end of a show be at the full stop of the poem that's what you're chasing |
0:50.4 | when people are how I'm going to take you to write a certain piece, you say your entire life. |
0:55.0 | London Wheel presents Anthony Anaxagore, I am not a poet. |
1:04.5 | A lot of the time you just need to shut up |
1:06.3 | and you need to listen. |
1:08.8 | Is there anything that you feel like you might be able to drop on us right now. So this is the poem. This is not a poem. |
1:18.4 | This is not a poem and I am not a poet. When I'm unable to find a better way of saying that in 2012 |
1:24.8 | 48 people in Great Britain were killed by guns |
1:27.7 | and 120 women killed by the hands of their beloved partners. |
1:31.8 | I am not a poet, but I can't find a more beautiful way to say that no |
1:34.8 | nation in the world imprisoned as many members of its population as America does. The more |
1:39.9 | black men in the US are incarcerated today than what they were during the peak of South Africa's apartheid. |
1:45.3 | No, I am not a poet. |
1:47.0 | When I can't find clever words to illustrate the fact that before 2008, Nelson Mandela |
1:51.9 | had been on America's list of most dangerous terrorists for over 60 years, |
1:56.0 | that Cameron is a liar, that Cameron was a key member of the Federation of Conservative Students |
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