how the love gets out
Featuring the one and only Phoebe Coco on heavenly spontaneous backing vocals. Dedicated to all the shy souls. 🌇
no she surely doesn’t need a stethoscope to hear my heart
wrapping like the knuckles of a tempest
on the ceiling of a hut
let me in
no, sorry
i’m so
sorry
An early autumnal rooftop jam in the beautiful city of Timisoara, Romania. This poem is a comment on the godlike power humankind now possesses.
we have all of the time in the world
held in the palm of our hands
and the harder we squeeze, the faster it flees
the tighter we grip, the shorter the trip
In Their hands
Royal albert home
As part of the Royal Albert Hall’s #RoyalAlbertHome series, Toby performs an exclusive set of poems from his aunt’s garden in Normandy. Crack open a cider and lose yourself in his dulcet tones why don’t you.
sunsets
there is nothing quite like being alone at sunset
it's like heartbreak but warmer
it's like sitting with someone and holding their hand
as they die the perfect death
it's like torture, if torture were pleasant
it's music if music were silent
it’s you sat marooned on an island
chewing the pencil that drew the horizon…
the Good listening to podcast
Here find Toby in conversation with motivational comedian Chris Grimes. Topics touched on include, but are not limited to: football; inspiration; quantum physics; smiling; poetry and death.
SEARCHING (WITH LYRIX ORGANIX)
One of Toby's regular collaborations with Lyrix Organix, performing his work alongside the London String Collective. Here set against mesmeric visuals by Joanna Layla & Lizzy Rowlatt.
i’m just trying to make my peace with the struggle
progress is gradual, needless to mumble
my life is a street full of rubble
haven’t got time just to lean on the shovel
last night I fell asleep in my duffle
head full of schemes, cheek full of stubble…
One from the archives. Teenage Toby performs his 2012 poem 'Tomorrow', in collaboration with the Hip Hop Shakespeare Company. This video has received a lot of love over the years.
i thirst for your freedom
but still I can’t define it
these thoughts are all stuck in my stomach
i need a heimlich
Tomorrow
MOMENTS
Quite possibly Toby’s rawest, most adolescent, and best dressed performance to date.
from starting dessert, to inducing a payment
from smoking to calling a cab
from the last to the first of these truths I have faith in
i know this one surely is fact
when the past has occurred, and the future is waiting
these moments... these moments are all that we have.
