Poetry Party - Hosted by Variety D and closed by Carmina Masoliver
Channel: She Grrrowls
Date: 2022-04-15

Variety D is an Actor and Comedian who has recently performed at Dave's Disabled Comedians' Showcase, produced by UKTV & Phil McIntyre Entertainment. Variety was formerly known as the 'Baby Girl of Comedy' when she begun doing Stand Up at the age of 16, from then on she has performed in venues such as The Drum Theatre (Birmingham), Broadway Theatre (Catford), Lyric (Hammersmith) & at the Edinburgh FRINGE Festival. As heard on: The Judi Love Show, BBC RADIO LONDON.

https://www.varietyd.co.uk/

Carmina Masoliver is a poet from south London, and founder of She Grrrowls feminist arts nights. She has been sharing her poetry on both the page and the stage for over a decade, and her small chapbook was published by Nasty Little Press in 2014. Her latest book ‘Circles’ is published by Burning Eye Books (2019) and is an illustrated long-form poem, and she recently self-published ‘Selected Poems: 2007 – 2012’, a mixed media pamphlet of poems. 

www.carminamasoliver.com I/F: @carminamasoliver T: @CarminaPoetry

Featuring: 

Demi Anter is a writer and performer originally from California, now based between London and Berlin. She has been a featured poet at Glastonbury Festival, Bristol Old Vic, the Scottish Storytelling Centre and Poetry Ireland. Her written work has been published by Magma, Banshee, and Ninth Letter, among others. Her debut poetry collection, Small Machine, is forthcoming from Write Bloody UK in April, 2022. 
www.demianter.com 

Laurie Ogden is a Northern creative currently based in South-East London. She was the winner of the Ambit 2021 Poetry Prize, was longlisted for the Jerwood Poetry Fellowship 2021, and shortlisted for the Box of Tricks & Sky Arts SCREEN/PLAY Award. She is a Barbican Young Poet alumna, Roundhouse Resident Artist 2019-2021 and a former Jerwood/Arvon playwriting mentee selected by Tim Crouch. Her debut pamphlet Humaning was published by flipped eye.
https://www.laurieogden.co.uk/

Poet, activist and scholar RED MEDUSA is a giant in the poetry community across the UK and the world. She is known and loved for her infamous sharp tongue and visceral, unapologetic demeanour. Her work focuses on feminism, love and injustice and captures the imagination of audiences across the board, featuring in Vogue, Grazia and Forbes magazines. RED’s insistence on collaborative work has led to her being commissioned to deliver poetry, events, workshops and talks for the NHS, ACLT, The Southbank Centre and Queen Mary, University of London. 
https://www.poetrybyredmedusa.co.uk/

Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson is an interdisciplinary artist-facilitator: writer, actor, theatre-maker, speaker, embodiment practitioner, independent researcher, consultant and workshop facilitator of Jamaican heritage. With 15 years' experience in art-ritual making, community-organising and transformative justice work - Lateisha calls in, shares and inhabits tools for deepened connection, collective healing and revolutionary love-solidarity practices to build trauma-informed spaces we need to heal, repair and Liberate.
https://lateishadavine.wordpress.com/
 
Antonia Jade King is one of the hosts of Boomerang Club, and a previous Hammer & Tongue finalist. She has featured at Poetry and Shaah and Heaux Noire and was part of Apples and Snakes Writing Room programme in 2018. She is currently a Barbican Young Poet and her debut pamphlet 'She Too Is a Sailor' is out with Bad Betty Press.
https://badbettypress.com/she-too-is-a-sailor-antonia-jade-king/

Jamie Hale is a poet, writer, and performer, bringing a selection of existing and updated work from their solo show, NOT DYING, described as “fantastic” by Hannah Gadsby. Soaring and fulfilled, this work challenges the idea of illness and disability as inherently miserable experiences, celebrating a joyful life whilst highlighting disabling barriers. Jamie won the Evening Standard Director/ Theatremaker of the Year award for NOT DYING in 2020, is a 2021 Jerwood Poetry Fellow, and has been published and showcased both nationally and internationally. They are the founder of disability arts organisation CRIPtic.
https://jamiehale.co.uk/

Annie Hayter is a Barbican Young Poet and London Writers Awardee, who figures the queerness in myth-making. They won BBC Proms Young Poet 2011, were runner-up for Times Young Poet 2012, and shortlisted for Young People’s Laureate for London. In 2021, they came third in the Cúirt New Writing Prize for Poetry, shortlisted for London Magazine’s Short Story Prize, commended for Bristol Short Story Prize, longlisted for Alpine Fellowship and Mslexia Flash Fiction. 
https://www.anniehayter.com/