Spoken Word Poet | DUKE AL ✍🏽 The Superpower of Words 🎬 Challenge a Poet | New YouTube Series 💪🏽 Create | Relate | Educate
Joined September 2019
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8 Dec 2025
Amazing to be part of the Libre Connect live talk as a #FreestyleLibreAmbassador chatting all things Type 1 Diabetes 💙
From stories to stigma to hope and creativity, we talked, we shared and we encourage you to talk too.
#poet #Type1Diabetes #FreestyleLibre
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30 Nov 2025
Thank you @wahwncymru for having me as keynote speaker at this year’s WEAVE Conference and I appreciate the support from Angela and the arts & health community.
Big love 🫶🏽
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25 Nov 2025
Thank you Atlantic College for having me speak and perform spoken word at the Lexicon pupil-led conference at your campus by St Donats Castle 🏰
The students showcased singing, multiple languages and the language of dance. So much talent in one room.
Powerful atmosphere.
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19 Oct 2025
I used to think OCD was a bully, a monster.
Until I realised it’s a parasite. 🦠
⚠️ I did not want anything to end. If you are struggling, please talk to someone and seek help straight away. You are not alone.
#OCDawarenessWeek #OCD #MentalHealth #poet
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14 Sep 2025
Challenge a Poet | Ep 3: Ink is Your Ocean 🌊✒️
The challenge: write a poem about ink.
Rules:
Ocean metaphor
Blue & black ink
Must inspire
Did I SMASH it, PASS it, or SCRAP it?
#challengeapoet #dukeal #poetry
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2 Sep 2025
Challenge a Poet | Ep. 1: OCD
I’ve lived with OCD since I was young.
This new weekly series pushes me to share more of my own work.
3 rules:
🧠 Memorise
⏱️ ~1 min
🎭 Break stigma entertain
🎥 Full video now on YouTube.
📲 Link in bio.
#challengeapoet #dukeal #ocd #spokenword
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DUKE AL retweeted
29 Aug 2025
We're kicking off season 3 of the Spark Changemakers Podcast with @DukeAlDurham, spoken word poet & hip-hop artist.
How do you turn pain into poetry? 🎤 Duke shares how words became his therapy and healing - one rhyme at a time.
👉 spark-changemakers.captivate…
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17 Jul 2025
The Lions Tour Poem- HEART OF A LION 🦁
In support of the @lionsofficial against Australia 🇦🇺 smash it lads 💪🏽🏉
@SkySports @BBCSport @SkySportsNews @sportbible @BBCWales @ITVWales
Music by @danieltoddmusic
LIONS VS WALLABIES 🦁🇦🇺
#poet #rugby #lions
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13 Jul 2025
I’m in the Creative Collective magazine! ROOTED IN RHYTHM
Loved being a part of @mediacymru magazine, thank you Ffion for a class write up! 🫶🏽🏴
Lots happening in life, updates pending
#poet #poetry #spokenword #poem #artist #magazine #love
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22 Jun 2025
Amazing to be a part of this! Congratulations to all involved especially @CliftCameron Chris Taylor and @ajkartman class work!
The Emmy® for Sports Documentary goes to … the team @BallState for their work on Transatlantic Storytelling 2024. Well done and congrats to Cameron Clift @CliftCameron, Chris Taylor & Alex Kartman @ajkartman! #2025IndyEmmys
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15 Jun 2025
Amazing to raise awareness of type 1 diabetes through this fantastic song by these young girls!
Especially good for those in school and young people living with the condition 💪🏽 they all are warriors!
15 Jun 2025
Its #DiabetesWeek Day 7
And here is something quite cool!
A joining of hands of @sanofi & @Stagecoach_GBR
4 teenagers living with #T1D have come together to form a girl band named "1Type"- and along with @DukeAlDurham - a song to raise awareness! 💙
prnewswire.co.uk/news-releas…
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16 May 2025
An Ode To Gatland 🫶🏽👏🏽🏴🏉
With the Lions Tour approaching and everything that’s happening in Welsh rugby, I wanted to show love to the legend that is Warren Gatland.
You will always be ‘Gatland of Our Fathers’ 🏴🦁
#poet #spokenword #rugby #lions #lionstour #wales #welshrugby
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14 May 2025
Amazing catching up! Thank you for the plug! Excited to read your trilogy!
14 May 2025
So great to see @DukeAlDurham new poem collection in the flesh (wool). Such a talented guy filled with passion. Do buy / read / follow.
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4 May 2025
Thank you for having me, amazing festival!
3 May 2025
Alex Wharton and Duke Al Durham at Merthyr Tydfil Children's Literature Festival 2025, they delivered their individual literature workshops to nearly 700 children.
Thank you for attending
@alexwhartonpoet @DukeAlDurham
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21 Apr 2025
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17 Apr 2025
The book is here
Imagine We Trade Bodies with Sheep 🐑
This trailer gives a glimpse into the world I wanted to create, raw, thought provoking and funny. If you haven’t already, grab the book! Comment below and I’ll send you the link🫶🏽
instagram.com/reel/DIjoLgiIC…
@LucentDreaming
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16 Apr 2025
Wow, I am beyond excited to be a of Hay Festival 2025 Writers at Work! Feeling grateful and blessed. I look forward to working alongside my amazingly talented cohort. This is going to be a ride!
Thank you Literature Wales and Hay Festival for the opportunity ☺️
15 Apr 2025
Announcing our Hay Festival 2025 Writers at Work: 10 Welsh writers taking part in our @LitWales development programme.
Find out more! hayfestival.org/news/
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DUKE AL retweeted
21 Mar 2025
It's more than a journey--it's a path to independence.
Discover Travel Training with this poem I wrote for Travel Essex.
21 Mar 2025
Discover the Travel Training journey and find out what it means to one of our students. It not just a bus journey but a journey to gaining independence and confidence #TravelTraining #IndependentTravel #Bus
Credit: annotate_
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