Fail Better – Dean Atta

At a time when technology, global society and our lives are changing at unprecedented pace, Poet in the City’s Fail Better 2020 season explored failure as a process, and change as a necessary, ever-present facet of our lives.

Through Poet in the City’s Poetry Broadcast Series on YouTube, we explored new ways to connect poetry, ideas and audiences on a global scale in the digital world as a means to combat the loneliness and isolation of COVID-19, and enable us to continue supporting artists and producing art at this time.

Dean Atta: 14 April 2020
Dean was named as one of the most influential LGBT people in the UK by the Independent on Sunday. His writing dealing with themes of race, gender and sexuality has appeared on the BBC and Channel 4, and in his regular column for Attitude magazine.