This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Poetry SLAM extraordinaire!

Georgia Zapparoli is a spoken word artist and the Manx Litfest Poetry Slam champion of both 2013 and 2014. She performs poetry on a wide range of subjects, offering political opinions and tall tales with equal aplomb. As a child, she was published in several anthologies and won the annual Ottakar's National Poetry competition at the age of 14. She holds an MA in Literary Studies from the University of Glasgow and is a qualified pharmaceutical dispenser. She is a great lover of micro nations and started her own in 2007, called the Empire of Whimsy. Nowadays, Whimsy exists online. Georgia's poetry lives there.

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