DUKE AL is a spoken word artist, published poet, hip-hop artist and creative practitioner. His latest collection Imagine We Trade Bodies With Sheep, was released by Lucent Dreaming in March 2025. His work has been featured in Go.Compare Six Nations 2025, FAW, Cardiff Rugby, Creative Cardiff, TNT Sports (Sport in Words for Black History Month on Sir Lewis Hamilton), BBC Wales, FujiFilm UK, Cardiff Metropolitan University, and BBC Scrum V for The Six Nations 2022.

Writers at Work: DUKE AL 

In this interview for our Writers at Work series, we caught up with spoken word artist DUKE AL, to hear more about why writing is – and always has been – so important to him.

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