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"Art's job is to question the status quo, not to ever accept it" - Spoken word and social change
"Humour resolves conflict, and it doesn't threaten" - Blindboy on mental health, society and Gasc**tism
Blindboy Boatclub
"There are a lot of dead poets on tea towels in tourist shops - this is about live poetry"
Meet the people making poetry cool again in Ireland