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Fay Roberts Author

Fay Roberts is a classically-trained singer from Cardiff who's been getting on stages since the early ’80s. Ze was bitten by the performance poetry bug in 2006 in Milton Keynes. These days ze describes zirself as: ‘a performance poet and peripatetic percussionist who by day pokes projects and by night projects across a microphone…’ In 2017, zir first solo show, The Selkie, was shortlisted as best spoken word show of 2016-17 at the Saboteur Awards, and gained five-star reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2018. Ze has been commissioned to write poetry for: the BBC, neuroscientists, art exhibitions, science conferences, and a hospital chaplain.