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Category: Personal

A profile image of Jamie, head and shoulders. Their head rests on a wheelchair headrest. They are white, with dark red hair and beard, wearing bluey-purplish make-up, and a leather jacket

I’m tired of inaccessibility: A statement on my withdrawal from the LET awards

Posted on: January 28, 2023 Last updated on: September 25, 2023 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Arts, Creative, Performance, Personal
I withdrew from competition for the Les Enfants Terribles Awards at Greenwich Theatre yesterday live on stage. This was as a result of the wheelchair inaccessibility of the main stage, and the…
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The cover to Jamie's poetry book, Shield. The image is made up of six horizontal stripes. The outside ones are white, and inside it goes yellow, pink, navy, turquoise (top to bottom). On the top white band in green it says "Jamie Hale" centrally with "Shield" in pink next to that. There is a white mask across the coloured bands. At the bottom on the white band it says "Verve Poetry Press" in pink

Shield (MacTaggart Lecture)

Posted on: September 12, 2021 Last updated on: January 18, 2023 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Arts, News, Personal, Poetry
When I’m not writing poetry, I’m also moving into writing for television – a world I’m realising just makes disabled people almost completely invisible – most of the time. The MacTaggart Lecture…
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The cover to Jamie's poetry book, Shield. The image is made up of six horizontal stripes. The outside ones are white, and inside it goes yellow, pink, navy, turquoise (top to bottom). On the top white band in green it says "Jamie Hale" centrally with "Shield" in pink next to that. There is a white mask across the coloured bands. At the bottom on the white band it says "Verve Poetry Press" in pink

Shield – my poetry pamphlet is RELEASED

Posted on: January 15, 2021 Last updated on: January 18, 2023 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Articles, Personal, Poetry
At the beginning of the pandemic, I spoke to my GP about being ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ and intensive care treatment, and he told me that I was “stuck between a rock and…
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A full-body shot of Jamie in their electric wheelchair against a blue background

Wheeled – a poem for International Wheelchair Day

Posted on: March 1, 2019 Last updated on: January 19, 2023 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Performance, Personal, Poetry
Wheeled I am wheeled. My weightin legs as flesh made solid ashalf dead and halfalive as weakness but I. I – my movement joy. Myleap up jagged kerbs. Myspeed. I trail people;…
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