Darragh Fleming

It's like if you are brave enough to get on stage and share your heart with the room, you'll be welcome in.

So it's really like wholesome in that sense.

And I found that and I really enjoyed it.

And it was just like another way to do poetry.

But it felt like because I was so interested in page poetry, it felt like there wasn't as much pressure with the stage stuff.

I just enjoyed doing it.

And had you done acting as a child or anything like that?

Or were you interested in the arts in that sense?

No, I was actually... I grew up thinking I wasn't creative at all.

And I was a shy kid, so I didn't really like being in the spotlight or anything like that.

The idea of public speaking terrified me.

Then, I suppose in my early 20s, I got used to being on stage because I did a lot of mental health talks in different schools and universities and workplaces.

So I was kind of used to that.

And then...

spoken word came along and i really enjoyed it and then i'd seen like other poets pop up

on Instagram, Don Ashworth, Lucas Jones, who were like doing their poetry as videos with music.

And I was like, this is really like engaging and you can feel it straight away.

And I decided I'd try to do that as well.

And I was tipping away with it.

You know, it was fine.