Books By Agnes Torok - Author

Agnes Toeroek is an award-winning poet, internationally-touring spoken word artist and double TED speaker. She has toured on four continents and writes and performs in two languages. Toeroek's work exists at the intersection of arts and activism, and she performs as often in fancy theatres as at crammed and freezing protests. Previous collaborations include trade unions, organisations to end sexual violence, mental health organisations, BBC, Films for Action, Dangerous Women Project and Upworthy. She also produces new work and performs with her band SheSpokeSound and feminist poetry collective Det Nya Gardet (The New Guard, Swedish). Her previous books, Happiness is an Art Form (about mental ill-health) and We Need to Talk (about sexual violence and how to end it) are published by Burning Eye Books. Both engaged with campaigning organisations and donated part of proceeds to support services for mental health and sexual violence survivors respectively. She believes in putting her words into action and in taki