Jasmine Gardosi is the current Birmingham Poet Laureate. She is a multiple slam champion, beatboxer, and Honorary Doctor of Letters (Birmingham Newman University). She is a winner of the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry and winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Performer.

Her work exploring identity, LGBTQ+ issues and mental health has appeared on Button Poetry, at the Tate Modern, Glastonbury Festival and across BBC Radio, including BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, Radio 4 and BBC Asian Network. She was featured on Sky Arts’ BAFTA-winning show, Life & Rhymes, and her poem about the pandemic, filmed on a rollercoaster, was broadcast across America on PBS after going viral on Twitter. Her performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall was broadcast on BBC Four and can be watched here.

​A two-time recipient of an Honorable Mention for Outstanding International Entry in the Button Poetry video contest, her work has been featured on their channel to tens of thousands around the world. Her video-poem about trans voices, ‘Say It Anyway’, was commissioned by the Brontë Parsonage Museum as their Writer In Residence to mark the bicentenary of Anne Brontë, and was featured at Flatpack Festival.

She is a previous BBC Arts Young Creative and Poet in Residence for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. She was invited by the British Embassy in Tallinn to headline Estonia’s historical, first-ever queer poetry slam as part of Baltic Pride. She has also run workshops and performed internationally in Austria, Romania and The Netherlands.

Check out her website to see more remarkable performances:  https://www.jasminegardosi.com/