Poetry

Loud Poets

with Rick Dove, Sarah Grant, Jack MacMillan & Imogen Stirling

Showcasing the top spoken word talent from Scotland and the UK! From laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets continue to prove that Spoken Word has something for everyone.

Join them for their Birthday show extravaganza as they launch their brand new, better than ever season!

Rick Dove is a queer, mixed-race, and neurodiverse poet from London, whose writing explores themes of identity, epistemology, and social justice using a blend of traditional and free-verse styles in order to interrogate the liminal spaces that define our common humanity. Rick’s work has been published in The Morning Star, Bunbury Magazine, Guardian Online, and Untitled Writers; and he has had poems included in anthologies from Tonic Sta Press, Gug Press, Cipher Press, Nine Pens, and Arachne Press. Rick was dubbed "one to watch" by TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson in 2019 and his debut full collection, Tales From The Other Box, was published in August 2020.

A veteran of performance poetry stages across the UK and internationally, Rick was crowned the Hammer & Tongue UK Poetry Slam Champion 2021 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Sarah Grant is a queer writer, poet, filmmaker and actor based in Glasgow. She is a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award Nominee, a Sky Academy Arts Scholar, a Scottish National Poetry Slam Championship finalist and on the Young Women's Movement 30-Under-30 list of influential women in Scotland. Sarah has written and performed two full length spoken word theatre shows. 'Spark' was awarded Best Spoken Word Show at the 2021 Saboteur Awards and 'Oracles' was commissioned for the Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2021.

Jack MacMillan is a multidisciplinary artist, theater maker, poet and educator originally from Fort William, now based in Newcastle. Jack has a poetry practice through which he writes and performs original created works as well as publishes and produces through Speculative Books and Poetry at Inn Deep. Jack has performed at venues and events such as: The Roundhouse, Last Word Festival, Uni-Slam, Loud Poets, BBC Words First, Beatfreeks, Belladrum Festival, Kelburn Festival and Nozstock Festival to name a few.

Imogen Stirling is a Glasgow-based artist. She is a performance poet, theatre-maker, musician, writer and facilitator. Her latest collection, Love The Sinner, has just been published (Verve Poetry Press) and is now in development for its live premiere as a poetry/electronic music fusion show. Imogen was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence for Paisley Book Festival 2021, is currently leading on Wigtown Book Festival’s youth programme and features as a writer/performer on BAFTA-winning Sky Arts documentary, Life & Rhymes, hosted by Benjamin Zephaniah. Imogen is a highly regarded artist who has performed her work widely throughout the UK and abroad (inc. BBC, Latitude Festival, Lindisfarne Festival, Neu! Reekie!, Sofar Sounds). Imogen is best recognised for her five-star debut collection and show #Hypocrisy which sold out at Edinburgh and Prague Fringe Festivals (Speculative Books, 2019) and was a participant of the BBC Words First talent development scheme (BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Asian Network and BBC Contains Strong Language). She was awarded 'Artist of the Year 2021' (Scottish Emerging Theatre Awards/National Theatre of Scotland), is part of the Convergence 2022 screenwriting cohort and is co-founder of Siren Theatre Company (Tron Theatre, Ayr Gaiety). Imogen has been described as 'one of Scotland's ones to watch' (Michael Pedersen) and 'a lyrical genius' (Benjamin Zephaniah) with her work labelled ‘life-affirming artistry’ (Everything Theatre) and ‘a tonic for the tribal times we live in’ (Darren McGarvey).

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