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BBC Contains Strong Language 2021 is a partnership between the BBC, Coventry City of Culture Trust, Writing West Midlands and Nine Arches Press, and is supported by Arts Council England, the British Council, Creative Lives and Jerwood Arts.
Join Ian McMillan for Radio 3’s late night language lock-in with some remarkable writers and performers – the Mercury-nominated musician and poet Loyle Carner, former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roy McFarlane, and one of the Britain's best known and loved poetic voice John Agard.
Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance live at the Contains Strong Language festival.
With the BBC, Writing West Midlands and Nine Arches Press
The BBC’s poetry and spoken word festival, Contains Strong Language, will come to Coventry in September 2021.
It will be the biggest celebration of poetry ever seen in the region.
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible and there is a hearing loop installed on site.
