Books & Spoken Word
Milk Poetry TFT – Debris Stevenson, Ciarán Hodgers, Bridget Hart
Milk Poetry returns to Tobacco Factory Theatres with a corker of a line up.
Fresh from a hugely celebrated run at the Royal Court with her show Poet in da Corner is Debris Stevenson. At secondary school 2002 – 2008 Debris was educated through the evolution of Grime, finding poetry in the mouths of the teenagers around her. Nurtured by the Roundhouse, Debris was then followed by Chanel 4 for a year (Yeardot), published by organisations such as, Louis Vuitton, Oxford University, BBC Radio 4 and Flipped Eye with her debut pamphlet, Pigeon Party.
Launching his debut poetry collection Cosmocartography is Ciarán Hodgers, an Irish poet working and living in the UK. He is the Sean Dunne National Young Writer 2010, an International Pangaea Poetry Slam Champion 2015 and the Word War 3 Slam Champion. In 2014 he produced a spoken word EP titled The Hours and in 2015 he exhibited his experimental prose-poem 4/3 in Amsterdam’s NEU NOW festival.
Bridget Hart is a DIY punk poet. Her work is biting, witty and surprising as she drags her audience through deftly constructed snippets of her reality. Navigating through ideas about feminism, mental health and being part of a far from perfect punk scene, Bridget’s words will get stuck in your teeth and you’ll be picking them out for days.
In 2013 she released a zine of poems called Scraped Knees and Sob Stories and toured with Henry Raby on ‘Riot Nrrrds’ for the Home Cooking Podcast. In 2017 released her first chapbook Better Watch Your Mouth. She is currently working on her first show – Riot Mouth, which compiles a herstory of DIY punk and her first album. Bridget is also co-editor of Bristol-based Burning Eye Books.
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