Arun Jeetoo
category spoken word
location London

Arun Jeetoo is an English teacher, facilitator, performer and writer based in London. He is an alumnus of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective.


His poems feature in The London Reader, The Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021 Anthology, Untitled Writing, Bad Form Review, Perverse magazine, the Commonwealth Foundation, fourteen poems, Magma, as well as other online and print magazines and anthologies.


A runner-up of the John Hopkins Prize (2017) and BBC Words First participant (2021), Arun has performed at an event for Little Amal at the Roundhouse (2021), Grand Junction’s Night of Power (2022), The Last Word Festival (2022), #Kindfest 2022, Camden Inspire (2022-2024) and ‘Express Yourself Freely’ in support of Palestine (2023) as well as Off the Chest's Spaces of Significance launch (2024) and headlined an Everything Poetry Night (2024). He was Ink, Sweat & Tears’ Pick of the Month (November 2023) and part of the Mehfil Resonates Art of Resistance cohort with Rich Mix promoting solidarity and resistance through a range of artistic practices. (2024).


Arun's debut pamphlet I Want to Be the One You Think About at Night was published by Waterloo Press (2020). @g2poetry.