Catherine Lábíran

Catherine Labiran is 21 year old poet who is able to infuse her diverse cultural experiences into exhilarating bodies of work enabling them to live lives of their own. She was selected as a winner of SLAMbassadors UK 2010, a winner of 30 Nigeria House, and was conferred the honor of writing the official Olympic Poem for London 2012 as one of London’s “12 Poets for 2012”. She has performed in venues such as The House of Commons, The Royal Festival Hall, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, to name but a few. Catherine’s first book entitled ‘Ayisat’ was launched in Cape Town, South Africa in November 2013. ‘Ayisat’, which is stocked and sold internationally and can be read in Southbank's Poetry Library.

The idea is, these words wil last longer than I do...

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