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Year: 2022

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Non verbal at the poetry slam (health blog)

Kate
April 11, 2022 No Comments

I wanna talk about last night. Content warning for disability, and mental health difficulties.   Last night was the Lyra Poetry Festival slam, which I had qualified for and was really excited for. The draw for the order was done in advance, so I knew going in that I was up first which took a […]

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Kathryn O’Driscoll is a spoken word poet, writer and activist from Bath, England. She is a U.K. slam champion and a World Slam Finalist (2021). She talks openly about disabilities, mental health, LGBTQIA+ issues and joys and gender politics in her wide range of poems.

She was longlisted for the Outspoken Prize for Performance Poetry, and the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Artist in 2022. In 2021 she was one of the featured poets on the (BAFTA winning) Sky Arts spoken word TV show Life and Rhymes.

She is the founder and creator of CandleLit Sessions and the Sword Forge Collective, a poetry reader for Full House Literary Magazine, and Co-Artistic Director of Spoken Word at PBH’s Free Fringe.

Her debut collection ‘Cliff Notes’ was released by Verve Poetry Press in February.

Read Some Of My Work

  • Cliff Notes is now available to preorder!
  • Peony Bruised
  • Vinegar
  • The Austere Beauty of Trying Not To Die
  • Snow day

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