Jacob Sam-La Rose

Jacob Sam-La Rose (born 1976) is an English slam poet.

Life
Sam La-Rose lives in London.

Sam-La Rose has appeared at a wide range of venues and festivals, including Kiasma (Finland), the Centre of Contemporary Art (Glasgow), London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Aldeburgh Literary Festival, the Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference (Chicago), and The URB Festival (Helsinki). His poems have been published in Identity Parade – New British & Irish Poets; Penguin’s Poems For Love; I Have Found A Song; Learn Then Burn: The Ultimate Poetry Guide for the High School or College Classroom; and Michael Rosen’s A-Z: The Best Children’s Poetry from Agard to Zephaniah, among many other anthologies and journals.

He has been a writer in residence at Raffles Institution of Singapore), has worked with the Ministry of Education in Malaysia to train English teachers and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Botswana and the University of Westminster. He was co-founded of the Malika’s Kitchen collective, and established the Roundhouse youth poetry program and slam in 2006, and a poetry workshop program and extended community at the Barbican Centre in 2009.

Sam-La Rose has been commissioned to produce new work for the National Gallery, the London School of Economics, Nitro (Black Music Theatre Co-Operative) and International PEN. He’s toured with the British Council and featured at a range of international festivals and venues, including the Leipzig Buchmesse, the Urb Festival (Helsinki), the Cuirt festival (Galway) and the Gwendolyn Brooks Black Writers’ Conference (Chicago). [Jacob Sam-La Rose, Apples & Snakes

Recognition
In 2009, Sam-La Rose was one of 12 poets commissioned by Arts Council England to produce new work to mark the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.

Poetry

 * Communion. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2006.
 * Breaking Silence. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2011.

Edited

 * Flight: An anthology of new writing (edited with Niall O'Sullivan). Manchester, UK: Flipped Eye Publishing, 2009.

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