Poet and playwright Inua Ellams looks at how place plays out in spoken word poetry with writers from Orkney, Manchester, Salford and Donaghadee in Northern Ireland.

Inua talks to poet and performer Harry Giles about language, literary baggage and growing up LGBT in Orkney. Writer Elmi Ali and members of the Young Identity collective tell him what it means to be a Mancunian poet. And he talks to Rachel McCrum about audiences, accents and nostalgia for the place where you spent your childhood.

The poems featured in this episode are:

Harry Giles "Visa Wedding"
Harry Giles "Drone" with music by Neil Simpson
Kieren King "Salford Is A Broadway Musical"
Rachel McCrum "Broad"
Roma Havers
Shameer Rayes "Reasons"
Damani "Violet Skies"
Isaiah Hull "The Mirror"
Emil Ali "Water Seeds Not Stones" (play extract)
Inua Ellams "Ghetto Van Gogh"
The Midnight Run featuring Kelly Foster (tour guide and Brixton historian)

Producer: Sally Spurring
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