AKA ‘Quality of Life is Not a Measurable Outcome’ This solo show was originally developed through the Barbican OpenLab programme in 2018, and was first staged at the Lyric Hammersmith and Barbican…
Category: Poetry
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…
Round Table: Fisher King
This is part of a sequence of five vignettes of Arthurian characters and dilemmas placed into historical contexts, written on commission from Bedtime Stories for the End of the World (link). For…
Round Table: Gawain
This is part of a sequence of five vignettes of Arthurian characters and dilemmas placed into historical contexts, written on commission from Bedtime Stories for the End of the World (link). For…
Round Table: Galehaut (1985)
This is part of a sequence of five vignettes of Arthurian characters and dilemmas placed into historical contexts, written on commission from Bedtime Stories for the End of the World (link). For…
Round Table: Perceval
This is part of a sequence of five vignettes of Arthurian characters and dilemmas placed into historical contexts, written on commission from Bedtime Stories for the End of the World (link). For…
Round Table: Guinevere
This is part of a sequence of five vignettes of Arthurian characters and dilemmas placed into historical contexts, written on commission from Bedtime Stories for the End of the World (link). For…
Knights of the Round Table
As a commission for the podcast Bedtime Stories for the End of the World I wrote a series of poems merging Arthurian legend, history, and themes to build a wold tracing ripples…
Lewisham and Harrow (with Daljit Nagra)
A collaborative poem between Jamie Hale and Daljit Nagra J The field here by day is throbbing. Drill-master ex-army workouts, blonde women sprint with their buggies. At night, the music is thrumming.…
Fibrotic
FIBROTIC Fibrosis n: the thickening and scarring of connective tissue, usually after an injury If you graft orange buds onto a lemon tree,they grow together – a salad tree ofsharpness and sugar…