What does creativity look like when you’re missing one of the five senses?

Award-winning poet and author Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds – bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he was slow and disruptive, some didn’t believe he was deaf at all.

On October 8 Antrobus comes to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss how the deaf experience can expand how we all think about language, writing and the spoken word.

Antrobus will draw on his new memoir The Quiet Ear to reflect on life and art at the intersection of worlds; growing up in East London to an English mother and Jamaican father; navigating the mainstream and deaf schooling systems; and living between the world of sound and silence.

Join us at the Kiln Theatre and have your questions answered in the audience Q&A.

This event will be interpreted in British Sign Language (BSL).