Joe Hakim


Biography

Joe Hakim is a writer, poet and spoken word performer from Hull.

He was the winner of Poetry Idol 10, a spoken word competition held at Shortfuse in Islington. Since then he has been performing around the UK on a regular basis with residences at Contact in Manchester, Birmingham REP, the Battersea Arts Centre, the Shunt Vault, the Crossing Borders project in Mytholmroyd and Hyperlexic presents: Poetry Boxing.

He performed his debut show 'Poetry is Dead' at the Camden Fringe Festival 2008 along with co-writer and performer Mike Watts. His short story 'Difficult People' was the runner up in BBC Radio 3 The Verb's Chekov Short Story competition in January 2010.

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Books

No Light / Might Escape    by Joe Hakim
Price: $0.99 USD. 24890 words. Published by Tim Roux - Night Publishing  on February 17, 2011. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Nobody tells you in school that poetry can be funny, but Joe's writing is hilarious, a genuine jig on the end of life's rope. The stories and the verse merge to give an intense account of one life lived largely in the dark, where every chink of light is either sunshine or the flash of some random disinterested sniper's bullet. Absolutely gripping. Light does escape. Here is the proof.

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