Josh Idehen performing at Westminister Arts Library

Live poetry from the Latitude Poets' Portraits private view by Alex Williamson at The Westminster Arts Library. 6th December 2011.

Josh Idehen is a poet and musician. A creative writing graduate from the University of Roehampton, he is the founder of the highly acclaimed poetry group PiP (A Poem Between People), a frontman of Benin City ("Outkast meets Benin City"), and the host, co-founder and co-promoter of PoeJazzi, a night of poetry and music which has been named TimeOut Critic's Choice No.1 (February 2007) and which received five-star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007 and 2008.

Joshua is also the founder of the new yet already highly-acclaimed Pencil Stringhorn Project, which won a commission to perform at Leicester's Summer Sundae Festival, and has collaborated with leading producers LV, Neil Pymer and Dan le Sac. His work has been also remixed to great acclaim by J@KES.

He has performed at many of the UK's leading festivals, including the Big Chill, Glastonbury and Latitude; on BBC Radio One, and BBC Radio 3's The Verb; and his work has been featured by The Times, The Sunday Times, and Prospect magazine.



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