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Lorna Callery-Sithole

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Lorna Callery–Sithole, (formerly Lorna Callery) is a poet, visual artist, performer and educator with experience in working in Offender Learning. She is interested in the softening of boundaries between artforms, specifically visual art and poetry, and in the use of creative processes in rehabilitation.

She co-founded Monosyllabic, a monthly spoken word event, as well as Polka Dot Punks (2011-2012), a pop-up art gallery in and around Glasgow, supporting emerging artists: a visual art experience combined with live theatre and installation work; Hidden City, site-specific performance poetry in Glasgow; and Chromatic Voices (2007-2008), a multi-voiced poetry ensemble in partnership with Confab. Her work can be found in a variety of publications and online, including Be the First to Like This: new Scottish poetry (2014) and Now, That’s What I Call Poetry!, (2018).

Despite having published poems since 2004, it wasn’t until 2019 that Lorna published her debut collection, Pigeon with Warburtons (Speculative Books).

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Selected Bibliography

  • Pigeon with Warburtons, Speculative Books 2019

In anthologies:

  •  Now, That’s What I Call Poetry!, Speculative Books 2018
  • Be the First to Like This: New Scottish Poetry, Vagabond Voices 2014
  • Great & Good: Isabella Elder & Strong Women O Govan – Protests and Suffragettes, Glasgow Arts, 2014
  • In Protest – 150 Poems for Human Rights, the University of London, 2013
  • Best Scottish Poems 2012, Scottish Poetry Library, 2012
  • New Writing Scotland 30, University of Glasgow 2012
  • A Thousand Cranes: Scottish Writers for Japan, Cargo Publishing, 2012
  • Not Only the Dark, Word Aid, 2011
  • Hidden Venues, Confab, 2011
  • Hidden City 5, Confab, 2009
  • Hidden City 2, Confab, 2006
  • Outside of a Dog, Black and White Publishing, 2006
  • Snacks After Swimming, Freight, 2005

As editor:

  • Discovery, anthology of student work at HMP Greenock, NCLAN, 2017
  • Create & Curate, HMP YOI Cornton Vale anthology, University of Stirling/NCLAN, 2014
  • Caution: Works in Progress, HMYOI Polmont anthology, Falkirk Council, 2010

Selected Biography & Criticism

Pigeons with Warburtons, reviewed in The Skinny, March, 2019.

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Publications by Lorna Callery-Sithole

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