“Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings…” - Kamran Assadi

After discovering his gift for writing poetry by writing about his feelings about his mum's death, Kamran has been blessed with performing at various open mic events, fundraising events, and large/small scale community festivals including Peace Alliance, Festival of London Youth Arts, Jawdance, Word4Word, DJ Excalibah’s Sunday Selection, Chill Pill, Poetic Justice, Come Rhyme With Me, Kaleidoscope Community Festival, OneLove Community Festival, and Spotlight Presents- to name a few! He has also performed for Cherie Blair (ex-PM Tony Blair‘s wife), and David Lammy MP.

Kamran has been helped and encouraged by so many people on the Poetry and Spoken Word scene, and he has made friends with a lot of them especially the poets. He considers it a real blessing having that security in writing down his feelings on paper, and writing in the moment of that feeling, because he believes a moment of feeling like that should never be edited, no matter the feeling.

Kamran describes his poems as real, easy to understand and meaningful, but unique as they are so open, deep, and self-exposing. He has had a selection of his poetry published in The Gleaner newspaper as well as local community magazines and on various websites.

Kamran’s poetry also influenced him to make short films based around the subject matter of some of his poems. One of his short films Stalker was chosen to be screened exclusively online by the British Urban Film Festival (2010). Another poem Show Me Your Real Self inspired him to make a short film of the same name in association with YEP Enfield, and his short film about unemployment In The Waiting Line was screened for a month in 2010 on their website to promote their Unemployment Awareness Month.