Sophia Blackwell is a performance poet whose mission in life is to make poetry vital and relevant.

A slam champion, cabaret tart and domestic diva, she's worked with some of the biggest names in spoken word and performed at Glastonbury, Wychwood and the Big Chill as well as venues like the Roundhouse, South Bank and Soho Theatre. Her her first book of poetry, Into Temptation, has just been launched.

Reviews:

'If Amy Winehouse wrote poetry, she might sound like this,' DIVA

'Dirty, juicy, knowing and open- works for me,' Stella Duffy

'Blackwell’s poems deliver what poetry usually only promises….astonishingly intricate, precise, witty, self-aware and formally complete.' Will Holloway