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This is a video and photograph of Abdi performing his work at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre as part of the ‘Empowering Young Voices Project’.

In his poem, ‘The Graveyard of Dreams’, Abdi expresses how a young person living in poverty can collide with expectations of youth culture and desire to fit in. Abdi joined our six-week poetry workshop series. He went from writing love poems to writing this insightful and politically charged poem about what it is like to grow up in Coventry ...