Hello, I’m Tom. I use he or they pronouns. Choose which feel comfortable to you when speaking or writing about me!
I’m a poet based in Sheffield. My work often focuses on the experience of being other, whether that’s talking about being autistic, being part of the queer community (I’m a bi, non binary trans guy, just to get that out there), or about the Other as in strange and mysterious creatures and entities from various folklore traditions.
I’m an experienced slam poet, and I’ve competed in the Great Northern Slam, the Hammer & Tongue National Final, the Axis Slam, Word War, Oooh Behive Slam, Poetry At Your Place a d even the Anti Slam. I’ve won slams a few times and come second many more!
I’m also an educator and workshop leader with a background in youth work and arts education. I deliver poetry workshops through The Writer’s Workshop in Sheffield, and online.
I also offer equality, diversity and inclusion workshops, focusing on disability and/or LGBTQ+ inclusion, by arrangement.
Helllo!
I’m Tom. I write poetry and say it out loud.
You can expect poems about gender and neurodiversity and sometimes folklore and mythology. Some of them rhyme. I really like playing with poetry forms.
I’m an autistic, non-binary performance poet based in South Yorkshire.
This talented poet turns the reader’s face to the beauty of freaks, holds our feet to the fire of the cultures we frighten, and makes us smile, giggle, guffaw and weep in their loving arms.
Kate Bornstein
Tom Juniper Poetry 