Lucy English is a spoken word poet and novelist. She has three novels published by Fourth Estate and two collections of poetry published by Burning Eye Books. She has toured widely in the UK and the US. With the South-West Collective she co-wrote Flash, a multi media spoken word show, which toured the UK in 2010-11 and also Count Me In, which toured from 2014-5. Both tours were sponsored by the Arts Council. Her 2018 online poetry film project The Book of Hours was shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize. She was co-editor and writer of Spoken Word in the UK published by Routledge in 2021.
Lucy has run performances and workshops for the British Council in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Taiwan for their Animating Literature Programme.
Lucy is the co-organiser of the Mix Digital conferences at Bath Spa University and co-director of Lyra, The Bristol Poetry Festival.
Lucy English is a Professor of Creative Enterprise and The Spoken Word at Bath Spa University and has a PhD on spoken word in poetry film.
Pam Falkenberg & Jack Cochran met in graduate school at the University of Iowa, and made films together when they were young. Jack was part of the Iowa Creative Writing Workshop and was working on a PhD in film studies, until he realized he didn’t want to be an academic and left to pursue a successful career as a professional cinematographer, eventually working out of LA and London. Meanwhile, Pam stayed behind, earned her doctorate, and went on to become a film professor and award winning experimental filmmaker, but eventually dropped out to work in visual display.
They reconnected some thirty years later and formed Outlier Moving Pictures. Now they honor their name by making technically innovative and poetic films about life, love, landscapes, social justice, and the environment. Jack has written poetry all his life, but he never knew what to do with it, until Pam said, “You’re a filmmaker — shouldn’t your poems be films?”
Their eclectic projects show all over the world and have won their share of awards, but Pam is particularly proud to have suggested turning Jack's poems into films, which has led to interesting collaborations with other poets and filmmakers.
