Zena Edwards is a performance poet/musician and workshop leader. She works in schools and arts colleges across the World facilitating self-devised workshops in creative writing, performance poetry and singing.
She has built up an impressive back catalogue of collaborations, creating new work alongside Pops Mohammed, Jonzi D, Jean Binta Breeze and Dana Bryant.
She's a past resident poet at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden, and has been commissioned to facilitate workshops to look at the relationship between poetry and music.
She tours regularly with the British Council and last year she was one of the five finalists for the 2005 Arts Foundation Award for performance poetry.
From humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mister Gee honed his spoken word skills as the host of the renowned performance poetry club Brix-tongue and is now one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. He has performed at the New York Nuyorican Poets Café and the Black Lily night in Philadelphia (home to Jill Scott and the Roots), as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He runs workshops in schools and his album Poetry in the Key of Gee was released to critical acclaim.
Mister Gee is a co-winner of a Sony Gold Award for Radio as the resident poet on the Russell Brand Show on BBC Radio 2, and is the resident poet of the hit West-End musical Into The Hoods.
From humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mister Gee honed his spoken word skills as the host of the renowned performance poetry club Brix-tongue and is now one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. He has performed at the New York Nuyorican Poets Café and the Black Lily night in Philadelphia (home to Jill Scott and the Roots), as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He runs workshops in schools and his album Poetry in the Key of Gee was released to critical acclaim.