Voicebox Presents: Zaru ‘Zhubat’ Jonson

February is going to be a wicked month as we welcome a poet/rapper from South Wales to the stage! TRUST ME you do not want to miss this!

Same as ever it will be open mic followed by a guest act; £3 on the door, entry from 7pm, food at the back.

Zaru Jonson has been performing words regularly since being awarded the second place and audience vote prizes at Literature Wales’ John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, 2009. Under various names, he has since read at the Edinburgh Free Fringe, Dinefwr Literature Festival, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, and two or three hundred-odd other open mics, exhibition openings, protests, poetry slams, festivals, hip-hop nights and miscellaneous events, often clustered around Cardiff. Under the name of Zhubat, he has supported Dr Syntax, Chester P of Taskforce, and High Focus Records, as part of the West- and South-Wales based Spitting Feathers collective. During 2014, he took part in the ‘Dylan Live / Dylan ar Daith’ tour in celebration of Dylan Thomas’ centenary, playing at eight universities around Wales, the Dylan In Fitzrovia Festival in London, and the PEN International Literature Festival in New York City (alongside Mr Phormula, Martin Daws, Aneirin Karadog, Huw V Williams, and Professor Daniel Williams.)

Zaru likes dogs, believes in a god, and is incurably sincere. Recently he returned from Canada, where he avoided everything and picked hazelnuts.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/456940831097396/

8th February 2016
Doors at 19.00
at Undegun, 9-11 Regent street, Wrexham, LL11 1SG