We are joined by JOY FRANCE!

After a 35 year teaching career, Joy came to creativity later in life via performance poetry. She is now involved in many art forms and has had several residencies, including currently being Creative-in-Residence at Affleck’s Palace in Manchester for the past seven years. She's had multiple documentaries about her story, travelled overseas to perform battle rap, and created comedy with her best friend, the suitably face-tattooed Skully, another veteran of the battle rap scene. In this episode we talk:

• How Will may be the new face of Oatly
• Cheating on Re-Draft with other podcasts!?
• The next dates for Switchblade and Natter
• Aging differently with Joy
• What does 'poet in residence' even mean?
• Affleck's palace
• Why poetry books aren't for Joy
• and much, much more!

You can follow Joy on Twitter and Instagram @JoyFranceWords

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