While we might use the Kindle to read our stories, Godfrey Duncan re-kindles the love that most of us might have shared listening to stories from our parents and grandparents. Born to Guyanese parents and raised in West London, Duncan also goes by the name TUUP (pronounced Toop), short for The Unprecedented Unorthodox Preacher, which came to him in a dream “Growing up in London, I was lucky to be surrounded by the Guyanese community of artists and thinkers. When there was a community celebration, we got together. I started as a performance poet — doing readings and gravitated from there. I realised I didn’t enjoy reading word for word. One day, I saw someone perform without a book and it touched something in me. I knew then that this is what I wanted to do.”

Godfrey Duncan at a previous performance