Justin Coe is a performance poet with appeal for both children and adults, on a mission to reconnect poetry with people and people with poetry.

A regular and popular performer in schools and on the UK's spoken word cabaret scene, Justin has also been seen entertaining in nurseries, nursing homes, piers, pubs, comedy clubs, buses, steam trains and street corners.

His work can also be seen in several children's poetry anthologies, the latest of which, "The Jumble Book", published by Macmillan, was named after Justin's most recent family show. A fusion of performance poetry, comedy, illustration, animation, music and theatre, "The Jumble Book" show tells the story of boy with dyslexia. It was nominated for Best Children's Event at the 2010 Brighton Festival and continues to tour.

 Justin also works as a live literature promoter through the organisation "Don't Feed The Poets", an actor/writer with Sunny Arts, helping to create social issue based dramas for training events and a Creative Agent for Creative Partnerships. He also recently completed a project as an Oral Historian collecting and preserving the stories of the residents of a housing estate in Southend. He lives in Southend with his partner, daughter and son.

Photo Acknowledgements: (Cover photo taken by Peter Fry, other photos by Peter Fry or Alan from Pilton College, Barnstaple. Ilustrations are by Ed Boxall).