 Spoken Word by Lucy English
The British Council presented a spoken word performance by Lucy English on Wednesday 1 March 2006 at the British Council, 737 Anna Salai, Chennai 600 002.
This was the last 'Spoken Word' performance in the Buzz season this year.
Lucy English, performance poet and novelist, was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in the UK. After leaving the University of East Anglia with a BA in English and American Literature she lived in the countryside growing her own vegetables. In 1985 she moved to Bristol and worked on the Windmill Hill City Farm until 2000 while she completed MA in creative writing.
She has three novels published - Selfish People, Our Dancing Days and Children of Light - and is currently working on a fourth. She is a part-time tutor in English and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University College where she is committed to introducing performance poetry onto the syllabus.
Lucy performs regularly in Bristol and London and has appeared at several international festivals including the Bristol Poetry Festival, Glastonbury Festival Poetry and Words Tent, Tour of Holland and the Edinburgh Festival. Lucy's work is featured in the Oral Anthology (Sceptre 2000) and in Shortfuse (2002).
She comes to India to perform at Buzz following her visit to Sri Lanka. She She will also lead an interesting 'Spoken Word' workshop for schoolchildren titled 'Focussing on Language' at the British Council on 2 March from 10 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. Her workshops are devised to encourage the exploration of different types of language - statements, questions, exclamations and commands thus empowering all participants to write a performance poem using their new understanding of the language.
Apples & Snakes, UK, have helped the British Council in organising the Spoken Word series of Buzz.
R Rangaraj
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