{"id":390,"date":"2026-03-02T17:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=poet&#038;p=390"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:55:21","slug":"caleb-femi","status":"publish","type":"poet","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/en\/poet\/caleb-femi\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Femi (NGA+GBR)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caleb Femi (1990, NGA+GBR) is a poet, filmmaker and photographer who won major prizes with his first two collections. Femi writes about growing up on a housing estate in South London, its architecture and nightlife culture. In his latest collection, <em>The Wickedest<\/em>, the reader experiences, in a poetic long take of a single night, a London Shoob. These are parties where living rooms turn into a club. Because Shoobs, besides being a place for music and dance, are also safe spaces for the Black-British community to share stories and support, Femi indirectly offers a glimpse into the harsh realities some attendees move through outside the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where you might know this poet from<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection (2021) for <em>Poor<\/em>, one of the most important poetry prizes in the United Kingdom.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Winner of the Sky Arts Award for Poetry (2025) for <em>The Wickedest<\/em>, a cultural prize also known beyond literary circles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director for various series on HBO, Netflix and BBC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":498,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-390","poet","type-poet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":390,"nl":388},"pll_sync_post":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poet"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/390\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}