I’ll tell you all now. Valentina has been to several DGPS
events. Yes, the very same poet on Britain’s Got Talent knows of me, and I of
her. I can’t remember the last time I searched out a video clip online but,
when word started going around that ‘Sonja the Bear’ was on the telly, it became
one of those need to know situations.
Valentina didn’t even get a chance to deliver her poem on
Saturday night. Alesha Dixon, professed musician, should understand that
sometimes things need a while to build. I’m not saying that it would have built
to the next Forward Prize but hey, we’ve all had a dodgy first line or two. As
it happens, I have seen the full poem I think. One of our events (and please
note: we will continue to be INCLUSIVE as a platform) saw three outfit changes,
audience participation, animal rights preaching and some borderline racism
(ignorance assumed) from the red dressed poet lady and, to be fair, she has had
some good ideas- if not necessarily always with the greatest of delivery.
This then, is an apology from me.