Celebrating Burns Night in Ireland this year was very special. It marked the launch of the project centering around climate change that I had been co-lead on with my old Sonnet Youth partner Kevin P Gilday. The young people we were working with created an amazing book of poetry, Commoners of Air which they read… Continue reading Burns Supper in Ireland
Category: Spoken Word
In conversation with Demi Anter at Shakespeare and Sons book launch
Join me and fellow poet and friend Demi Anter in celebration of the book launch of Anter’s new poetry collection, Small Machine (Write Bloody UK). Book launch blurb: Join us for an intimate evening of conversation and poetry at Shakespeare and Sons Bookstore in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Books from both authors will be available for purchase and… Continue reading In conversation with Demi Anter at Shakespeare and Sons book launch
IRL book party!
This has been a longtime coming. Earlier this year, like countless other artists, I launched my new book online. Now as things reopen, I’m overjoyed to be hosting and performing at an in-person event. Dating & Other Hobbies Sunday Sesh will be live streamed on the community radio station Refuge Worldwide. Support will come from… Continue reading IRL book party!
Oak – A Radical Act of Love
A cinepoem created by a group of artists in Berlin 🌱 ‘A Radical Act of Love: Arborescence, Echoing the Mycorrhizal Network of Oaks’ is a new project that illustrates the current development of curatorial practice by artist Siobhan Healy, where the planting of oak saplings has led to global artistic commissions, inspired by the… Continue reading Oak – A Radical Act of Love
Filming latest cinepoem at Berlin’s oldest tree
I’ve been working on a new cinepoem for the artist Siobhan Healy’s latest project based on Oak trees. A crew of us visited he 800 year old tree Dicke Marie and we used a drone to film the tree and the surrounding forest. Filmmaker Romy Ladgodka is making a soundscape to go along with my… Continue reading Filming latest cinepoem at Berlin’s oldest tree
Headlining Rise! Spoken Word @ The Bureau
Excited to be reading from both of my books at this event, hosted by Janey Colbourne and featuring poet Jonny Lindsey. Thursday July 1st @ 7pm over Zoom Tickets here Click attending here
Hoer Radio appearance
I recently opened for @exxcel.xx’s boss ass bitches @dj.fuckoff & @cryptofauna.flac B2B set – defo check out the full video below, they smashed it!!! 🎥 by @hoer.berlin ✏️ Poem from #GIRLHOODBook (@spec_books) 📍May 27th 2021
Telling Stories through Spoken Word – Loudcast
Scots Whay Hae
Some Girls – Happy International Women’s Day video
Writer In Residence for St Michael’s Primary
I’m thrilled to have been invited into this scheme, and can’t wait to get started. Glasgow Times press release here
New animated video ‘Warrior’
Really enjoyed collaborating on this piece about activism, with the Berlin based animator Al Robertson (Music by Schuttle)