Young Poets: Lessons in Gravity

The Young Poets co-produced an anthology of new work, and a selection of poems was recorded in 2022 as part of the anthology launch celebration. 

You can read and listen to these here. To read all the poems and support our young people’s programme, you can buy a printed copy of Lessons in Gravity.

You can read more about the statue of Robert Geffrye, and the story of our museum.

A Command from the Moon by Mateenah Adeleke
An English Merchant by Tom Ramsden
Agitation by Lead by Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit
Taken Down in Three Parts by Maryam Chaudhri
By Contrast My Alcove by Tom Branfoot
Flatten Us by Leo Muhibzada
Noises in the Garden by Rose Schechter
a messy marriage by Taiwo Ava Oyebola

Anthony Anaxagorou is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator.

Anthony was the first critic’s choice winner of SLAMbassadors UK in 2002 (known as Rise Slam at the time) and he returned to the slam the next year, before departing to make music with his band. He later performed live for SLAMbassadors at the 02 Arena in memory of Stephen Lawrence.

Since then, Anthony has gone on to become an established and enormously respected poet on the UK spoken word circuit and has written four collections of poetry, publishing his book How to Write It with #Merky Books, an imprint of Random House launched in 2018 by rapper Stormzy.