jamie in a hospital bed on stage, the words "NOT DYING" projected above their head

NOT DYING

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…
A tree with a hollow following a lightning strike

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…

bird song

bird song published in zoeglossia jamie hale each winter   convinced that   i am dying the signs        point to no     the crow balanced on my            hospital bed            laughs     i do not laugh back            …
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

On the 14th Jan 2021, Shield – my first poetry pamphlet – will be published by Verve Press. Exploring my experience as a disabled person during the pandemic through a variety of…