Claudine Toutoungi

Claudine Toutoungi’s poetry collections, published by Carcanet Press, are Smoothie (2017) and Two Tongues (2020), which won the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Poetry Review, PN Review, The Guardian, The New Statesman and elsewhere. As a performer, Claudine’s contributions to festivals and events across the UK include Tongue Fu, Poetry East, Kendal Poetry Festival, Shubbak at the National Theatre and she has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, In Touch and Poetry Please. Claudine’s plays Bit Part and Slipping ran at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, and Slipping featured in New York’s Lark Play Centre’s HotINK series and was a Best Play Finalist in the 2015 Audio Drama Awards. She has written multiple audio dramas for BBC Radio and is currently writing a new play for Radio 4, The Voice In My Ear.