How the dickens did I get to become a performance poet? This is a question that many people have asked me. So I’ve written an essay in two parts which answers that exact question. And for you, gentle listener, I have managed to probe exactly what it means to be me, Robert Garnham.
A two part piece of autobiographical writing about my life and what led me to becoming a spoken word artist and performance poet.
This essay takes me from childhood in Surrey and my first attempts at writing, through school, college and my first jobs, and finally to discovering performance poetry in 2009.
I hope you enjoy it!
Part One
Part Two
Robert Garnham 