I left Singapore with the most beautiful rush. The City Limits performance, a culmination of six months of collaboration with fourteen incredible Singaporean artists, was a highlight, not just of my year but of my life. One of those times when I know exactly why I write, perform and work with other artists. Here are [...]
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The City Limits in photos
Posted in Projects on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Writing the City
Posted in Projects, tagged British Council Singapore, City Loves, Miriam Nash, Writing the City on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Over the past few months, I’ve been part of a team at the British Council Singapore, scheming, building, writing, testing, re-testing and clocking up screen-time to create Writing the City, an online community for new, emerging and established writers from Singapore and beyond. It’s an exciting project for me. Writing Communities are very important to [...]
Open Notebooks Revisited
Posted in Projects, tagged creative correspondance, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Letter Writing, Miriam Nash, Singapore poetry on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For the past year, poet Karen McCarthy Woolf and I have shared a ‘creative correspondence’, writing letters to each other which inspire and feed into our writing processes. Our letters have flown between different locations, crossing London, Europe and now Asia. Later this year they’ll be flying to Egypt, where Karen has a residency coming up. [...]
CollaborARTing
Posted in Projects, tagged Accident & Emergence, Anna Sexton, CollaborARTing, Jacqueline Saphra, Miriam Nash, Pistols & Pollinators on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I was invited by poet Jacqueline Saphra to take part in Pistols & Pollinators, a project that brings visual artists and poets together to work on joint artworks, run by Accident & Emergence. Everyone on the project came together for a day in November, to share ideas, get to know each other and [...]
Open Notebooks
Posted in Projects, tagged creative correspondance, Karen McCarthy, Letter Writing, Miriam Nash, Open Notebooks, Spread the Word on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s beautiful when someone you admire asks you to work with them. Karen McCarthy is one of my favourite London poets, and this week we’ve embarked on a creative correspondance – sending letters to each other in an exchange we hope will prompt new poems for both of us. This is part of Karen’s Open [...]
What’s Next?
Posted in Projects, tagged London Teenage Poetry SLAM, Miriam Nash, Poetry Night on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What’s been taking up my days, and why have I disappeared slightly over the last month? Well, one reason is that the London Teenage Poetry SLAM, a beautiful and time-worthy project I’ve been working on since January, is moving into its final stages. On 27 June, it’s the SLAM Final, where students from 11 secondary [...]
Slow Down London: Letters and Canals
Posted in Projects, Workshops, tagged Letter Writing, Miriam Nash, slow down london on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From 24th April – 4th May 2009 I’ll be taking part in Slow Down London, a brand new festival that urges Londoners to experiment with taking things slowly. On 2nd May, I’ll be teaming up with WRITELondon‘s Jasmine Cooray for the London Canal Write – a creative writing workshop that meanders along London’s canals, with [...]
