Lisa Kelly

A MAP TOWARDS FLUENCY Lisa Kelly(Carcanet, 2019); pbk £9.99 While A Map Towards Fluency might be Kelly’s first poetry collection, it shows an impressive imagination and originality. The poet is both partly deaf and partly Danish, though entirely unable to understand her mother’s native tongue, and she has incorporated both of these aspects of her life into … Continue reading Review of ‘A Map Towards Fluency’ on Dundee University Review of the Arts

Fife Contemporary has partnered with StAnza 2021 to celebrate re-making, re-working and the inordinate amount of re-newing that has gone on in this most challenging time during the pandemic. Darning and mending in all its forms is celebrated in the online exhibition and I am thrilled that two poems in my pamphlet 'From the IKEA … Continue reading Fife Contemporary online exhibition ‘Resolve to Make it New’

During Lockdown, a creative project I was especially pleased to work on was a film-poem in response to telephony from a d/Deaf and marginalised perspective. Working with poets Nadia Nadarajah, DL Williams and Serge Neptune was a joy and although for the most part we had to create and collaborate remotely, we felt like a … Continue reading The House of the Interpreter, film-poem about d/Deaf Experience and Telephony

I am waiting for a delivery from Plamen, my driver. A text has informed me he will be arriving between 13:00 – 14:00. Many of us have been waiting for deliveries in the past months – food, clothes, whatever, as we lockdown and hunker down, but this delivery is part of a strategy to reverse … Continue reading Tentative Tender Tendrils from the Torriano