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Collecting flowers
For the last two years I‘ve been working on longer pieces – putting the finishing touches to Empires of Clay and Echolocation, collaborating on the poems for the Altofts commission and the first incarnation of Corseted. More recently, I have completed another edit of my second novel. As a result I’ve written very few individual…
Not the right sort of voice
In 2014 I recorded two of my poems for poetry films. The Bristol-based film-maker Pru Fowler did a stunning job and we launched the films twice, once in her city and once in Leeds. Paisley Quilt was shown and reviewed on the Moving Words website and, since making it available online, we received many positive…
Corseted
We were awarded a Grants For The Arts grant by the Arts Council and by Leeds Inspired to research and develop a one act show inspired by historical Morley figure Alice Cliff Scatcherd. The project was originally called Alice In Bloomers and was researched with the help of the Morley community and local academics including…
Head Above The Parapet
The final script-in-hand reading at Room 700, Leeds Central Library drew quite a crowd. Twenty audience members came direct from the Pinched Waist workshop where had they found out more about the history of the corset, some of them even squeezing into the sample corsets that Allana Marsh had brought along. It was a rewarding…