Deanna Rodger

Deanna Rodger has been integral to the progression of performance poetry and spoken word in the U.K, especially in London where she has made a name for herself as part of the poetry collectives Keats House Poetry Forum and the popular poetry events Chill Pill and Come Rhyme With Me. Her theatre commissions include Now We Are Here (Young Vic, Dir. Ian Rickson), and Sing Before You Speak Again (Young Vic).

Her first collection of poetry, I Did It Too, celebrating a decade of work, came out in 2017 (Burning Eye Books). Here recent commissions include ‘Bigger Than Sport’ (Sports Personality of The Year BBC1), ‘Black History Matters’ (BBC Sport), ‘If’ #ChangeTheGame, read by Serena Williams on International Women’s Day (BBC Sport), Dina Asher Smith (BBC Sport), Jamel Shabazz X Lee Jeans, Nationwide, Adidas, St Paul’s Cathedral, Barclays Premier League, Small Green Shoots, FIFA Women’s World Cup and the Young Vic.

In November 2021 she will release His Fingers Have Left, a pamphlet of five form poems responding to Kevin Elyot's archive in the Bristol University's Theatre Collection (Burning Eye Books).

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