Malika Booker

Malika Booker is a British poet, writer and artist. She is considered "a pioneer of the present spoken word movement" in the UK.

Booker was born in the UK to Guyanese and Grenadian parents. Booker grew up in Guyana and returned to the UK, aged 13, with her parents.

Booker began writing and performing poetry whill studying anthropology at Goldsmiths University. Her first collection of poetry Pepper Seed was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize for best first full collection published in the UK & Ireland. She was the inaugural Poet In Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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