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George Roberts was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1953 and spent the first couple of years travelling around navy bases. He moved to Oxford in 1983. He has worked as a chef and adult community education tutor and did 11 years in the oil industry, which took him regularly to the former Soviet Union. He now works as a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

He has been called a “post-Beat lyricist” and a “downbeat dub poet” and writes for page and stage. His poems have appeared in Fire, Magma, The Nail, New Poetry from Oxford, Password Scop, A3, and This poem is sponsored by... He has performed his work with Hammer & Tongue and other groups in Oxford, Reading, London, Brighton and Leamington Spa.

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