Sentinel Literature Festival
Abi Idowu
- 2010 -
Abi Idowu
is a poet, short story writer and playwright. An avid writer and reader,
she has
had performances with artistes of great repute both in music and
poetical oratory and has been published in four international
anthologies, several journals, anthologies and newspapers within and
outside the UK. .She has an exploratory oratory CD called ‘Roamings’
with the single ‘Omi’ as the official launch song for the charity GAAP.
Of Nigerian origin, she describes herself as ‘a child of earth and
waters’. Her main style of performance is the combination of Yoruba
ancestral traditional songs with the modern lyrics of poetry. Her choral
heritage features heavily in her art form and it continuously evolves in
her performances.
She was Bolton FM Online newsreader in 2007-8 and mentored with the
Bolton Racial Equality Commission and Bolton Museum and Library. Since
her arrival in the UK, Abi has been involved and performed with poetry
groups as Write Out Loud, Dead Good Poets, Apples and Snakes, Commonword,
Maikeda. She is featured on the Write Out Loud website and also has her
own website-
http://abidowu.vpweb.co.uk.
Presently, she works in collaboration with Manchester’s women writers
called Riftcuts through Commonword’s sponsorship.
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