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2024 NEWS

 

Welcome to my website!

My name is Dominic Berry. For over 10 years, I have been writing poems for adults and for children.

I won the 2020 Saboteur award for Best Spoken Word Artist. 

I was also 2017 winner of Saboteur’s Best Spoken Word Artist award, and the 2017 Glastonbury Festival Poet in Residence (rebooked for Glastonbury 2022!)

Check out this *NEW POEM* with BSL (British Sign Language) from my new book for children, Make Some Noise.

‘Feel Some Noise’ was written by me with a BSL performance created and performed by children and the teaching staff at Mellers’ Primary School’s Focus Provision Class. Wooooo hoo! Children feature with permission from school and families. It was so much fun exploring the artistic qualities as well as clarity of the BSL, and I learned a lot. I am so proud of this video! I hope you like seeing it…..

Click here to watch the BSL poetry performance:   Feel Some Noise

2023 NEWS

I am very excited to say that I have also had a new poetry book, ‘Yes Life’, out with Flapjack Press… and have loved being on tour!

I performed this poetry events in Liverpool, London, Leeds, Leicester, Peterborough, Huddersfield, Hexham, Rochester, Preswich and Manchester (many times in my home city!) 

This book (and all my others for adult readers, plus the ‘Dragon’ series story poem books for younger readers) are available through the awesome Flapjack Press

The new book for children is only available from me at shows, so I would love to see you at a gig! Here is the cover (drawn by me!)!

Thank you, Big Imaginations

Find out more about the children’s show and book https://dominicberry.net/trolls/

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2022 NEWS

Check this lovely review of my recent rural tour of my poetry shows for children!

Before that, I had toured London’s Half Moon, Wigan Old Courts, Salford Arts Theatre, Widnes Studio, Goole Library, Halifax Square Chapel and many other places with my verse for children and adults. Summer saw a great set of performances, including Kendal Calling Festival, and a 14 date run of my poetry shows at The Lowry.

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Other highlights of 2022 have been:

• a short story for children published in Tales of The Brave, The Bold and the Beautiful, edited by Sophie Willan, created with Stories of Care and Manchester University. (“Fantastic… Highly recommended.”   Jacqeline Wilson
• my director’s debut with Oliver Syke‘s debut children’s show, ‘Alfie’s First Fight’, touring libraries and boxing clubs this year. I am currently thrilled to be directing the follow-up by Oli, ‘Fishing for Rainbows‘.

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Before the first lockdown, here were some of my 2020 tour dates

This follows an amazing time I had performing my show at 2019 Edinburgh Fringe – ‘I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less‘.

See ‘I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less’ audience reviews here!

Watch my new trailer here!

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I have been writing poems professionally for many-a-year now…

Check out my Glastonbury Festival verse I created for my residency with them, including my appearance performing live on BBC2

Dominic Berry at Glastonbury

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Here are some of the places I toured in 2018, with my previous adult show No Tigers (Known in its earlier versions as Playing Mortal Kombat Guarantees You Inner Calm)

Also in this year, my poetry was featured in an amazing collection from Bad Betty, ‘The Dizziness of Freedom’, alongside such awesome poets as Dean Atta, Dizraeli, Lemn Sissay MBE, Jackie Hagan, Maria Ferguson, Salena Godden, Rob Auton and an absolute load of other exquisite talent with whom I’m honoured to be sharing pages.

Bad Betty

2016 NEWS

No Tigers 2016 international tour:

   CANADA, JANUARY 2016

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2012 NEWS

Dominic wins … 

Superheroes Of Slam, hosted by the Manchester Literature Festival

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Dominic Berry’s ‘Pulse’… 

Dominic performs award-winning set at ‘Not Part Of’ festival in Kro Bar, Manchester.

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