Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a writer & performer of international standing who has been cited as a ‘one-woman festival’. Known primarily as a Jamaican dub poet she also directs plays, choreographs productions and mentors poets in the East Midlands region.  She is the author of five poetry collections. Her latest, Third World Girl, brings together new writing and celebrated poems from previous collections including Riddym Ravings and Spring Cleaning and she tours it with performances and talks in 2011 and 2012, more information via www.renaissanceone.co.uk

What they say: For stature, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze invites a Caribbean comparison with Maya Angelou, except that her range is broader still. Her poetry shifts effortlessly through standard English to a native Jamaican which has no equal in its emotional depth’ The Herald