2012 to present
Baker has won the London and UK Slam Poetry Championships. [5] In 2012, he won the World Slam Poetry Competition, becoming the youngest ever winner.
In 2014 Baker began performing as a speaker for TED. [4] His talk ‘A love poem for lonely prime numbers’ has over 2 million views. [6] [7] A collection of his own poetry, The Sunshine Kid, was published in 2015 by Burning Eye Books. [1] Baker received major national airplay on the BBC in 2015 when he wrote and performed a poem for Simon Mayo's Radio 2 show. [8] On Boxing Day 2016, he performed a Christmas Meditation on BBC Radio 4. [9] He occasionally performs as a battle rapper, [2] featuring on Don't Flop. [10] Together with the jazz guitarist Chris Read, he is half of "Harry and Chris", who have performed on The Russell Howard Hour television programme. [11] [12] [13]
Baker is well known as an aficionado of wine gums, and has many poems on the topic.
