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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Solo show: NOT DYING
You missed it! A film of this show was available on YouTube until August – but it’s gone. If you want a chance to catch it in future, keep a close eye…
Dissembling Nature @ Deptford Literature Festival
I am very excited to be leading a workshop titled Dissembling Nature as a part of Deptford Literature Festival – it’s going to be great, and I really encourage you to book…