John Siddique. Julian Daniel. Buzrak Mubrak. Segun Lee-French. Dike Omeje. A diverse and tight-knit band of poet-singers-comedians performing together, chilling on stage together. In rhyme, reason and ribaldry they discuss relationships, the idea of home, the mating game, fathers and sons, spirituality, politics and style.

The Brothatalk collective toured the UK with their live shows.

An extract from dark stars by Segun Lee-French

You are you are you are

like dark stars

whirlpools of elemental force

pulling time and space

into a tight hot place

below my naval

ooh the imagined embrace

you are the black gold of the sun

the spinning spheres

the song that’s always just begun

when we say “Tune!”

your heavenly bodies create

gravity.

those lines and curves

of divine symmetry

draw my eyes

hypnotising hips

you magnetize me

with your sympathetic magic.