Literature
Fiction
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Danny Start
Joe McConnell talks to Danny Start about his play I Love you Angela, recently broadcast on Radio 4, and about his career as a writer.
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Review: Wings are Giving Out by Sean Burn
Wings are Giving Out is Sean Burn’s third full length collection from Skrev Press. Colin Hambrook reviews the latest collection from one of the UKs foremost experimental writers.
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Danny Start: Blogbitch
She's a rootin' tootin' blogbitchin' babe! A short story by Danny Start -
Assessing Lord Nelson: Shag Sketch 006
What would a dialogue between Lord Nelson and a social worker have sounded like? Ann Young brings the historical character into the present and makes some terrible jokes in passing. -
Gabriel Pepper
The Demise of our Relationship: Gabriel Pepper explores the issue of managing PAs
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Peter Street: As the crow flies
A novella for younger readers by award-winning writer Peter Street.
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Lou Birks: Lion King
A short story by Lou Birks
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Penny Pepper: The Brown Pot
Penny Pepper is the award-winning writer of Desires, a unique, groundbreaking and explicit collection of short stories focusing on disabled people's experience of sex in all its chaotic permutations. -
Colin Cameron: The Brick
a short story by Colin Cameron
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Peter Street remembers Jimmy
A new piece of prose from disabled writer Peter Street evokes a vivid picture of a day centre somewhere in the north of England in May 1983
Creative Writing
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Commission: Transformation by Nancy Willis with music by Chris Morris
Animated art by Nancy Willis, based on 'The Explorer' by Allan Sutherland, with music by Chris Morris.
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Danny Start
Joe McConnell talks to Danny Start about his play I Love you Angela, recently broadcast on Radio 4, and about his career as a writer.
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Peter Campbell: Brown Linoleum Green Lawns
Peter Campbell's first poetry collection, published by Hearing Eye, is reviewed by Joe Bidder
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Rachel Gadsden: Beyond the Asylum
Beyond the Asylum: A collection of paintings by Rachel Gadsden which formed the basis for the accompanying narrative.
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Critical Writing Masterclass
A group of disabled writers were invited by New Writing South and DAO (Disability Arts Online) to a series of seminars to develop skills in critical writing and gain an understanding of its role within the world of news media and p -
Danny Start: Blogbitch
She's a rootin' tootin' blogbitchin' babe! A short story by Danny Start
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Peter Street: Collection of poetry and short stories
A collection of poetry and short stories by Peter Street
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John Exell: The Saga of Job Seeker
A poem by John Exell
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Rachel Gadsden: Beyond the Asylum
A narrative from Rachel Gadsden based on her collection of paintings, Beyond the Asylum. -
Assessing Lord Nelson: Shag Sketch 006
What would a dialogue between Lord Nelson and a social worker have sounded like? Ann Young brings the historical character into the present and makes some terrible jokes in passing.
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Gabriel Pepper
The Demise of our Relationship: Gabriel Pepper explores the issue of managing PAs
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Peter Street: As the crow flies
A novella for younger readers by award-winning writer Peter Street.
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Colin Cameron
A series of short stories by Colin Cameron exploring the disabling attitudes faced by disabled people on a daily basis.
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Lou Birks: Lion King
A short story by Lou Birks
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Penny Pepper: The Brown Pot
Penny Pepper is the award-winning writer of Desires, a unique, groundbreaking and explicit collection of short stories focusing on disabled people's experience of sex in all its chaotic permutations.
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Short story: Matt Padmore's 'Can Zombies Run?'
Matt Padmore kick starts 2010 with a hilarious short story: Can Zombies Run?
Poetry
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Commission: Transformation by Nancy Willis with music by Chris Morris
Animated art by Nancy Willis, based on 'The Explorer' by Allan Sutherland, with music by Chris Morris.
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Peter Campbell: The pleasure madmen know
Joe Bidder profiles survivor poet and activist Peter Campbell and gives a potted history of the movement, through his achievements. -
Peter Campbell: Brown Linoleum Green Lawns
Peter Campbell's first poetry collection, published by Hearing Eye, is reviewed by Joe Bidder
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Review: Peter Street: Thumbing from Lipik to Pakrac
Matt Simpson reviews the latest collection of poetry by Peter Street
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Review: Climbing Mountains in the Dark by Cate Jacobs
Colin Hambrook gives a personal response to a recently published collection of poems by Cate Jacobs titled 'Climbing Mountains in the Dark'
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Review: Wings are Giving Out by Sean Burn
Wings are Giving Out is Sean Burn’s third full length collection from Skrev Press. Colin Hambrook reviews the latest collection from one of the UKs foremost experimental writers.
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Review: Billy Childish - Unknowable but Certain at the ICA, London
The Institute of Contemporary Arts exhibits Billy Childish's first major retrospective of work in London, bringing together a cross-section of works from the artists career as a musician, artist, novelist, film maker and poet. Colin Hambrook reviews the show by this talented, infamous artist.
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Peter Street: Collection of poetry and short stories
A collection of poetry and short stories by Peter Street
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John Exell: The Saga of Job Seeker
A poem by John Exell
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Allan Sutherland: Paddy Masefield Poems
32 poems by Allan Sutherland based on interviews with Paddy Masefield as part of the Edward Lear Oral History Project. -
Peter Street remembers Jimmy
A new piece of prose from disabled writer Peter Street evokes a vivid picture of a day centre somewhere in the north of England in May 1983
Drama
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Sophie Woolley
Melissa Mostyn reviews Sophie Woolley's latest one-woman show When to Run?
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Mark Ware: Mind Games
Mark Ware has created a play, a film and an exhibition that's influenced by his life after a stroke at the age of 39. Colin Hambrook talked to him about his creative journey.
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DaDaFest 2004
Gemma Nash looks forward to DaDaFest 2004.
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Interview: Tony Heaton discusses Shape's Animate artists' talks
Animate will explore the rich history of Disability Arts, through a programme of talks and workshops. Colin Hambrook asked Tony Heaton, sculptor and Chief Executive of Shape, what he plans to talk about himself, and what he is looking forward to hearing about from the artists leading these events?
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Interview: Julie McNamara discusses her theatre practice, part of Shape Animate
Colin Hambrook talks with theatre practitioner Julie McNamara about her Animate talk at Shape on 4 March 2010. Animate explores the rich history of Disability Arts through talks and workshops.
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The Fingersmiths: In Praise of Fallen Women
The Fingersmiths latest production incorporates spoken and projected text with theatricalised British Sign Language. Penny Pepper caught their performance at the Drill Hall, London.
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Kaite O'Reilly: Beyond Victims and Villains
Kaite O'Reilly reviews a groundbreaking collection of Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights
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Review: Deafinitely Theatre Company perform Double Sentence
Double Sentence presents some new departures in style for Deafinitely Theatre Company. Alan McLean saw the production at the Arena Theatre Wolverhampton on 1 October 2009.
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Mark Ware
Mark Ware has created a play, a film and an exhibition that's influenced by his life after a stroke at the age of 39.
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Alternative Dramaturgies informed by a Deaf and Disability perspective
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Discussion: Art of Difference Festival and Symposium 2009
Colin Hambrook, editor of dao, attended the Art of Difference Disability and Deaf Arts Festival at the Gasworks, Melbourne from 10-21 March 2009. He also went along to the Momentum09 one-day conference in Auckland on 27 February 2009. Here he compares the differences between the development of Disability Arts in the UK in comparison to developments in the Antipodes.
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Resources: my top ten writing tips for aspiring drama writers
Mandy Redvers-Rowe from the newly-reformed ‘So Many Excuses' offers her top ten writing tips for aspiring Drama writers.
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Assessing Lord Nelson: Shag Sketch 006
What would a dialogue between Lord Nelson and a social worker have sounded like? Ann Young brings the historical character into the present and makes some terrible jokes in passing.