Author Interview
Talking With: Probably Tomfoolery’s Tomos Roberts about His Simple Poems for Complicated Times
Roberts’ iconic YouTube video “The Great Realization”, released during the pandemic, is now a beautifully illustrated picture book
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8 min readOct 14, 2020
About six weeks into the shutdown, when the grip of fear and uncertainty had taken hold across the globe, Tomos Roberts had a great realization. While the pandemic had us all wondering when life would return to normal, Roberts found hope in the idea that life might never return to normal. Instead, Roberts created a beautiful spoken word poetry video that expressed his vision of a world transformed.
I had the great honor and privilege to interview Tomos over email thanks to his wonderful publicist, Keely Bomee Platte of Spark Point Studio. View the video, check out the book, then read on to get behind the scenes with Tomos Roberts!
