Outsider

Dear Friends, We’ve been living in our van on the road now for over a year and are currently on the south coast of Crete. If you’d like to keep up with my travels and the work growing from this hop over to the OUTSIDER blog. Cheers! See you there 🙂 Sophie x Photo by […]

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Nationwide Poets

As the Nationwide adverts using poets continue to cause controversy I thought I’d repost this piece from earlier in the year first published on Sabotage Review.  Perhaps it was the Kolkata heat, or the second glass of red, or impatience to head out that forced a knee-jerk ‘I’ll do it’ to Claire Trévien’s FB post […]

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Post-News Poetry 

  Today was a lovely lovely workshop to finish off a mini-work-stay in Cardiff. I was invited by Literature Wales to work with year 9s at Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni in Blackwood as the class recently won the Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru Cipio’r Castell slam award. The winning poem, performed by four hugely talented young women, […]

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Getting around Cymru

We’re still between vans at the moment so I’ve been relying on public transport when workshopping. The train is always the best option for getting to Cardiff or Swansea from Wrexham and the direct line is pretty efficient but along the coast the service is a bit threadbare (literally some of the seats are falling […]

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Edau – falling in love with the arts

It’s been a lovely few days running workshops for teachers as part of the Edau (falling in love with the arts) project. The teachers are really enthusiastic about finding new approaches and ideas for stitching poetry into their classroom work so that I’ve genuinely felt the workshops have made a difference. 

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On Houses 

In May 2017 Rebel Sun poetry collection is out with Parthian Books. Here’s the artwork from Andy Garside, I’m so pleased with it. Below is an excerpt from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran that inspired elements of the work.

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#thirtydaysofBrexit

I’ve been working on a project over on Instagram for the past thirty days called #thirtydaysofBrexit. It began on the day of the referendum result as part of a desperate effort to try and understand what happened. I voted remain, everyone I know voted remain (aside from a couple of family members) so it came […]

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Focus Wales Festival

I had an amazing time at Focus Wales festival. It continues to grow in size and brilliance every year. The commissioned poem will be filmed soon but in the meantime here’s a couple of clips from my performance, huge thanks to Joey and Heather at Filmage for some smart filming and editing.

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