Tom Dewey is a Founding Member of the Sword Forge Collective 2022 – 2023.
BIOGRAPHY
Tom Dewey is a poet and playwright best known for his distinctive voice and prolificacy. Marrying surrealist imagery with multi-syllabic rhyme, his style produces literary dreamscapes which have been said to suggest “presence and absence, everything and nothing…Dewey is a young man under an old sun who catches its ancient light.” He became the youngest ever regional spoken word champion in 2015, and his influence is much to be detected in the Bristol poetry scene.
NOTEWORTHY
- Poet in Apples and Snakes Writing Room
- Performed to a sold-out Roundhouse
- Closed the Bristol Old Vic’s 250th Birthday Weekend
- TEDx Speaker
- Journalist for Bristol 24/7
- Represented by Rising Arts Agency
- Featured on BBC iPlayer
- Named by Rife Magazine as one of the most influential young people in Bristol.
- Longlisted for Best Collaborative Work (for their participation in The CandleLit Sessions) in the Saboteur Awards 2022.
AN EXAMPLE
TOM’S TEDx TALK
TESTIMONIALS
One of the most technically skilled craftsmen working in literature right now. Specificity, detail, and multi-syllabic manipulation of sound mixed with one hell of an emotive gut punch makes one hell of a performance.
Kathryn O’Driscoll, UK Slam Champion 2021.
BOOKINGS / CONTACT TOM
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomjamesdewey
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomjamesdewey/
Agency: https://rising.org.uk/