Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford and Sussex Universities. She has performed her poetry live, on TV and radio all over the world. Her work has also appeared on the London Underground and human skin. She has lectured in Creative Writing at several UK universities, including Greenwich, Cardiff and Kent, and is currently Fellow in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University. She was Canterbury Laureate from 2009 to 2010. Telling Tales is her fourth poetry collection. She lives in Kent with her husband and two children.
Patience Agbabi time travels into the CBBC Book Club to talk about The Time-Thief (the second adventure for the Leaplings after The Infinite) and some of its real world inspirations!
CBBC Book Club
Watch Patience Agbabi on the BBC’s Authors Live as she introduces her time-travelling Leaplings, reads from The Infinite, answers some questions from young readers and more!
BBC Authors Live
Patience Agbabi speaks to Ian McMillan on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb about time travel, word play and autism in her debut children’s novel The Infinite. Listen to the conversation and a reading from Patience from 33 minutes in.