Wednesday 10th October
Wednesday 10th October
TranScripts Writers (Mina Albanese, Garnett (Ratte) Frost, Ruth Smart, Stephanie Gray) Liverpool Mental Health Consortium is pleased to present a selection of readings from our TranScripts project, which was aimed at developing writing by people from local trans communities. This innovative writing project was delivered in partnership with Writing on the Wall and led by course tutor Marjorie Morgan, writer-in-residence for Independent Liverpool Biennial and recently shortlisted for the prestigious Kenneth Branagh Award.
photo credit: Holly Revell
Barbara Brownskirt Barbara Brownskirt is the poet-in-residence at the 197 bus stop, Croydon Road, Penge. To date, she has written 22 volumes of poetry and shows no sign of slowing down. Lack of success, loneliness and failure to acknowledge what failure looks like are major themes running through Barbara’s poetry, as well as her muse Judi Dench. Barbara is the construct of writer Karen McLeod, prize-winning novelist of ‘In Search of the Missing Eyelash’ and Writer-in-Residence at Bookseller Crow, Crystal Palace. She works with the performance art collaborative DUCKIE as well as touring the UK with Polari, the literary salon based at the London Southbank Centre. ‘Indefatigable, prolific and utterly unpublishable, Barbara is the manifestation of bitterness, anger, lesbian cliché railing against her lot. Barbara is rubbish, but she doesn’t know it.’ (VICE) 10
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