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…
Category: Personal
Shield (MacTaggart Lecture)
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…
Shield – my poetry pamphlet is RELEASED
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…
Wheeled – a poem for International Wheelchair Day
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;…