Join Caleb to discuss his landmark, life-affirming, new poetry collection, The Wickedest – a minute-by-minute depiction of a typical night at a legendary monthly house party known as ‘The Wickedest’.
Here we meet a vivid cast of characters, young and old, all surfing a revelry steeped in camaraderie, community, desire and a spirit of jubilant defiance.
Caleb Femi is a writer, director and photographer, and was featured in the Dazed 100 list of the next generation shaping youth culture.
Femi’s award-winning debut poetry collection, Poor, won the Forward Prize in 2021 and was listed for the Rathbones Folio and Jhalak Prizes.
It was added to AQA’s English Literature GCSE syllabus in the UK in 2022. He has directed for HBO, the BBC and Netflix, as well as shows for brands such as Louis Vuitton, TikTok, Bottega Veneta, Dior, Mulberry and NCS. From 2016 to 2018 he was the Young People’s Laureate for London, working with young people on a city, national and global level.
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