KARL NOVA

In his award winning debut book Rhythm and Poetry, the beauty of rap lyricism and Hip Hop influenced poetry is displayed with wit, humour and positivity. His approach is to meet young people where they are and engage them with the style and attitude they are familiar with while keeping his content wholesome, inspirational but still very real. This collection reflects on his journey of growth from childhood to adulthood through the lens of hip hop culture with a great freshness, sincerity and realism. A lot of the verses have already impacted many lives as he travels and delivers them with his unique and energetic style.

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Poetry? (Poem)

True Colours (Poem)

If you wish to contact Karl Nova to book him to perform, speak, do creative writing workshops or for any other reason email Authors Abroad at: yvonne@caboodlebooks.co.uk

in 2020 which was a very challenging year indeed, Karl Nova became the recipient of the prestigious and coveted Ruth Rendell Award for his outstanding contribution to raising literary levels in the UK. To find out more about this, click HERE

 

 

You can watch his acceptance speech below

 

 

The 2020 Premier League Writing Stars poetry competition was awesome. Karl Nova was asked to write a verse and he did, it ended up being called “Beautiful Ambition” He wrote it to inspire students to write their own poetry on achieving their goals.

 

 

 

Karl Nova went to the Premier League office and recorded the verse and you can view the video below:

 

 

 

In 2019 Karl Nova was made a UK National Poetry Day ambassador.

The theme for the 2020 National Poetry Day is Vision (see it like a poet)
Karl Nova contributed a poem called “See Through My Eyes” which you can watch below:

See Through My Eyes (Poem)

In 2019 was asked to contribute a poem on the theme of truth. You can watch him performing the poem “The Misinformation Age” below. If you would like to get the full text you can get it here

The Misinformation Age (Poem)

To Celebrate World Book Day, Karl Nova was asked to write a poem about reading. Watch the video below to hear him read it.

Reading (Poem)

Karl Nova’s debut book “Rhythm And Poetry” was declared winner of the CLPE, CLiPPA 2018 Poetry award presented to him by Grace Nichols at the National Theatre, London. Read more about it here

A teaching sequence has been developed by CLPE for “Rhythm And Poetry” To find out more about this click HERE

Karl Nova’s CLiPPA Award acceptance speech

After taking part in Just Imagine’s “Read To Inspire” event at Birmingham City University, Karl Nova got to be interviewed by Nikki Gamble for the “In The Reading Corner” podcast. Listen to the full interview below. It really throws light on his creative process and journey so far as a writer.

Suffolk Libraries asked Karl Nova to appear on their Free Speech Podcast. Listen below to the full podcast. It is probably the most personal interview he has ever done.

Enjoy this Spotify Playlist of some of Karl Nova’s favourite tracks