Helen Calcutt

Helen Calcutt (born 1988) is a British poet and writer.[1]

Helen Calcutt

Career

Calcutt is a British poet, writer, and choreographer born in the Black Country (1988) and now living in Birmingham. Her pamphlet collection 'Sudden rainfall' was published by experimental British publishing house 'Perdika Press' when she was just 23 years old. Though receiving mixed reviews from critics for its modernist approach to content and form, the book was celebrated as a 'radical and uncompromising' contribution to poetry, shortlisted for the PBS Pamphlet Choice Award on publication, and becoming a Waterstone's best-selling collection in 2016. Helen is the first writer-in-residence to be appointed by the Clent Hills National Trust,[2] and in 2016-2017 was appointed Poet-in-Residence of Loughborough University.[3] Calcutt has written award-winning features and literary reviews for journals such as the Wales Arts Review, The London Magazine, Sabotage, and The Times Literary Supplement. Her first full-length book of poems 'Unable Mother', described as both a ‘violent and tender grapple with our cosy notions of motherhood’ (Robert Peake) will be published with V Press in September 2018.

Calcutt is also a trained dancer and choreographer and is movement director for a Midland's based theatre company; Regional Voice Theatre.[4]

Dance and 'écriture corporelle' - a bodily writing

écriture corporelle – a ‘bodily writing’ is a cross-discipline project which explores the lines of dialogue between movement and language. The project launched at the Poetry International Festival in July 2014.[5] followed by a performance at the Birmingham Literature Festival, with a text-based dance performance inspired by Owen Sheers' poem 'Last Act', and at the University of Bolton with a physical adaptation of T.S. Eliot's landmark poem 'The Wasteland'. The project has since been endorsed by The Poetry Society, NAWE, First Story, and the University of Bolton.

Bibliography

2013: Sudden rainfall, Perdika Press, ISBN 978-1-905649-17-4 September 4, 2018: Unable Mother, V.Press, ISBN 978-1-9998444-0-0

References

  1. ↑ Bell, Jo. Bugged. Bell Jar Press, 2010pg 116
  2. ↑ Trust, National. "National Trust". National Trust Clent Hills.
  3. ↑ "2015 | Poet in Residence | School of the Arts, English and Drama | Loughborough University". www.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ "A Bodily Writing". Southbank Centre.
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