No Tigers

Renowned for his eloquent yet uncompromising stage shows and a desire to confront inequality, Dominic Berry is a winner of Saboteur’s Best Spoken Word Performer award and has been Glastonbury Festival’s poet-in-residence. He is also firmly established as Manchester's premier Queer Vegan Poet. No Tigers includes a series of poems detailing his experiences whilst working in India, plus many of the poems featured in the internationally touring show 'Playing Mortal Kombat Guarantees You Inner Calm'. Dominic Berry is a Manchester-based performance poet. He made his first professional poetry work, ‘Lovely Fruit Salad’, as an artist-in-residence at Contact in 2007. From there, his work has taken him to gigs in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Argentina and USA, and tours of Canada, India, New Zealand and Australia. His many awards include winning New York’s Nuyorican Poetry Café Slam and Manchester Literature Festival’s Superheroes of Slam, and his TV appearances include BBC’s Greg & Celia’s Festivals Highlights and Channel 4’s My Daughter the Teenage Nudist. “If a greater number of people expressed themselves as creatively and as truthfully as Dominic Berry, then the human race would be a more honest and interesting one.” - Rob Auton, writer & performer “Hilarious and moving, Berry's work crackles with energy and humanity.” - Tim Clare, poet & author “Whether he is fiercely flying the flag for vegans or proudly probing into the politics of sexuality, he does so with a smile on his face and a fire in his gut.” - Sara Hirsch, UK Poetry Slam Champion