Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, but grew up in rural Wales with white foster parents. Featured on Channel 4 and renowned on the performance circuit, her debut collection R.A.W. won the 1997 Excelle Literary Award for poetry, and Transformatrix was highly critically acclaimed on publication in 2000. Her poems have appeared on radio and television all over the world.
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.