Zena Edwards
Hot Poet: Zena Edwards
Matched with:
- The Word Forest Organisation
- We Feed the UK / Black Roots & Go Grow with Love, London
Poem focus:
- Trees on the Equator
- Regenerative Farming
Zena Edwards is a writer, performance poet and musician, creative educator and project developer. As a multidisciplinary collaborator, Zena has worked with The Last Poets, Hugh Masekela, Baaba Maal, choreographer Akram Khan (Xenos), and Visual Artist – Theaster Gates (Soul Manufacturing Company).
Zena has delivered masterclasses for Arvon retreats, Apples and Snakes, The Clore Leadership Foundation The Roundhouse and Poets Built It Online Poetry Community. Her writing and performance pedagogy is rooted in identifying the connection to the Earth, the body, human resilience and the imagination which greatly informs her mentorship practice. Zena mentors across all generations, cultural and economic backgrounds as she believes in artist agency depends on well-being, using creativity.
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Zena Edwards joined Hot Poets in 2021 as part of the original Hot Poets project and since that time has accompanied Hot Poets to COP28 in Dubai and performed for us at the Southbank, Barbican, TEDXLondon, the Green Funders Conference and at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool. Zena is also part of the new We Feed The UK regenerative farming project for The Gaia Foundation.
Poem: ‘Tincture’
Inspired by: Black Roots & Go Grow With Love
Location: London
Subject: Black-led Community Growing
