Performance poets
Apples and Snakes work with a wide range of performance poets, writers and storytellers. Here you will find biographies, pictures and a growing selection of videos of their performances at Apples and Snakes events.
Use the search by poet application on the right side of the screen to filter this list to your particular area of interest (e.g. storyteller, rapper) or to learn more about a particular artist.
If you are looking for further information on artists that work with our Education department on schools and outreach projects please swap, all poets to education poets using the drop down list.
Shirley May
Shirley May is a published poet and spoken word artist. She has worked in performing arts for many years and has a wide range of project management...
ShortMAN
Born in 1979 and hailing from South London, shortMAN merges rhythm and rhyme in an eloquent examination of black history, justice, equality and...
Simon Mole
Simon Mole is an emcee and spoken word artist whose writing and performance foregrounds the unseen and the unheard, the forgotten and the yet to...
Sonia Hughes
In 1999 Sonia Hughes started writing seriously as part of a writers group run by Gatehouse Books. Since then she has been gracing the popular...
Sophia Blackwell
Sophia Blackwell is a performance poet, cabaret vamp, burlesque wannabe, feminist lesbian warrior princess and Italian pasta-momma. Born in...
Sophie Woolley
Sophie Woolley is a writer and actress from London. She writes comic monologues, plays and short stories. Sophie played the role of 'Gabriella' in...
