Lucy English
Novelist, Performance Poet, Slam Sex Goddess
Poetry

 

 

Family Prayers

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Lucy English
School of English and creative studies,
Bath Spa university College
Newton Park,
Newton St. Loe,
Bath BA2 9BN

Family Prayers
By Lucy Enflish
Audio CD

Severn Crossing

A Dry Summer

Sea Walls

Another Life

I Was Born In A Strange Country

Family Prayers

The Good Morning

Frost At Midnight

He's Not My Child

This Poem

In April 1996 Lucy won the Bristol Poetry Slam, the first one she had ever entered, and has since then performed poetry all over Britain and abroad.
She toured Holland with the ‘Poetry Whores on Tour’.
And Denmark, India and Sri Lanka on British Council sponsored visits.In July 2003 she co-ordinated the International Conference in the writing and practise of performance poetry at Bath Spa University, with guest speakers Charles Bernstein and Bob Holman.In 2004 and 2006 she was a guest poet at the Austin International Poetry Festival in Texas.

She was a guest poet at the 2006 Wordfest in Calgary, Canada.

She was one of five poets selected for the “Temptation” poetry tour in 2005 and was artistic director for the “Exposed” poetry tour in 2006. These tours were funded by Apples and Snakes and the Arts Council.

Major performances include.

Austin Poetry Festival, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006
Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 2004
Bristol Poetry Festival, 1998,99.2000.2001.2002.2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Big Word 2000, 2001, 2002
Cheltenham Festival of Literature 1997, 2000
Hay on Wye Literature Festival 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006
BBC radio four slam semi finalist 2006

Her work has appeared in the following anthologies.

Apples and Snakes ‘Velocity’ 2004 (link)
Times New Roman, Rattapallax Press 2003
“ Oral” Poems, sonnents, lyrics and the like, Sceptre 1999
Gargoyle 42 Paycock press 1999
Bristol Slam Poetry Anthology 1998