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Hereford & Worcester,6 mins

Birmingham's serious player in spoken word

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The award-winning slam poet Vig says his work is 'like letting words dance'. He shares with Lizzie Crow the secrets to working out what you want to write about and the knack to getting on stage to perform. Vig reflects on running his own poetry nights, as well as sharing one of his own pieces, Bangalore to Britain, that floored the team at BBC Upload, and has been making audiences think up and down the country.

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