Milk Poetry selects the finest, freshest poets from the UK and beyond to produce the most nourishing and eclectic spoken word bonanza you could ever hope for, curated and hosted by Malaika Kegode (Outlier)
Maria Ferguson
Maria Ferguson is an award-winning writer and performer. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. Her debut collection, Alright, Girl? (Burning Eye, 2020), was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. On the stage, her one-woman show Fat Girls Don’t Dance (Oberon, 2017) won the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show; Essex Girl (Oberon, 2019) was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival. She has been commissioned by the Royal Academy of Art, Stylist magazine, The Bronte Parsonage and BBC Radio. She is the Associate Producer of LIVEwire Poetry and teaches creative writing in a variety of settings. Her second poetry collection, Swell, is forthcoming with Penguin Books in 2025.
Matt Abbott
Matt Abbott is a Wakefield-born poet, educator, and activist. His début collection Two Little Ducks was published by Verve in 2018. Bloomsbury published his début kids’ collection A Hurricane in My Head in 2019. He was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition in 2024 and his work has recently been translated into Arabic for The New Arab.
