Amy Jo Philip
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Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth‘s first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two awards: organisation of the
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I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter’s House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, “Of the Wounds” and “The Changes”. I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I
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Two publications in two days! That must be a record for me, though I’m not sure my record keeping is stringent enough to confirm or contradict that. Still, it’s a great way end one month and begin another as, following yesterday’s publication in Bad Lilies, my poem “Everything is running out at once:” is published
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“Knackered, Babes”, a poem in four sections, was published yesterday in issue 20 of the excellent Bad Lilies, edited by Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson. This piece is full of allusions and references to, and puns on, 80s and 90s music, hymns, praise songs and liturgy, sci-fi, literture and politics, as well as the natural
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I seem to be getting a good bit of practice at interviews, though not of the job kind. Yesterday, I welcomed Jules Lacave-Fontourcy and Mitchell Morton to my house to interview me and record a couple of poems as part of their work on a documentary about Camp Trans Scotland 2024. It was definitely happy
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Christmas is coming, the wallet’s getting thin – and that’s with me having bought only two Christmas presents and a small amount of chocolate as things stand – but that also means the LGBT Health and Wellbeing winter celebrations are just round the corner. As the poster above indicates, I’m a featured performer at the
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I should have written this post about a fortnight ago, but in my defence I was really under the weather until last week. Anyway, I was interviewed on Radio Scotland’s “Sunday Morning with Tony Kearney” on 3 November. They got in touch after hearing about Quirk!, the group I’ve started for LGBTQ+ folk at the
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I know, I know – I haven’t said anything about how well the recent(ish) readings went. (Very well indeed, thanks.) I’ve been busy with family, writing and sending out poems (a rejection – the third out of the four submissions I’ve sent this year so far – arrived this afternoon and I’m actively planning more
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If you’re in the Edinburgh area this Friday, get yourself along to the Scottish Storytelling Centre for this showcase with “some of the most talented spoken word artists in the UK”. It’s going to a really fun evening, with a “poetry jukebox” as part of the event as well as short sets from each of
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It’s Pride month! Though this is obviously not my first Pride since coming out, it’s the first one I’ve marked in any way on the site. What better way to celebrate Pride than with poetry? Here are a few places you’ll find me over the next several weeks. First up, I’ll be reading a short
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Just a really quick update on the Marcella Althaus-Reid Spoken Word Theology Competition to say that I came second! The judges — playwright Jo Clifford, musician, theologian and URC minister Alex Clare-Young and poet Jay Hulme — chose Naomi Orrell’s “Antiphon for the Trans Body” as the winner and I have to say it was
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What’s this? Two posts in two days?! You might be forgiven for wondering whether there is good reason for this lack of parsimony, dear readers. And there is. For I was informed on Monday evening that my work has been shortlisted for the inaugural Marcella Althaus-Reid Spoken Word Theology Competition. The competition, an element of
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<taps mic slightly nervously> Well, erm, hello. It’s been a while. Yes, I know pretty much every post on this blog has begun with some sort of variation on that theme for the past several years, but this one is a bit different. Trust me. Though, heaven knows, I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t.
Amy Jo Philip 