Caleb Femi

Caleb Femi is a Poet and Director who grew up on North Peckham Estate in Southeast London. Working with film, photography and music, he pushes the boundaries of poetry and the written word on the page, in performance and in digital mediums. He has written and directed short films for the BBC and Channel 4 and poems for Tate Modern, The Royal Society for Literature, St Paul’s Cathedral and many other organisation. Between 2016 and 2018, Caleb was the Young People’s Laureate for London. As a recognition of his important and timely work, the writer has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection (2021) with feature recent articles in the Guardian and London Review of Books.