Lucy Lepchani - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Poet writing for stage and page, based in Devon and enjoying performing at venues & festivals. Have performed at Ways With Words, Torbay Poetry Festival, Glastonbury Festival 'poetry and words', Croissant Neuf Summer Party in Wales, Larmer Tree, the Electric Picnic in Ireland, and various others.

I also sometimes perform with the brilliant Dennis Just Dennis, with our Poetry Political Party sham slam; with the delightful Mim Darlington, as literary duo 'The Honeytongues'; and with some of Devon's finest wordmiths - Moor Poets - touring rural village halls, festivals, and whatever else. Have also started to collaborate with the fabulous Sara Hurley of 'Blazing Tales' Theatre Company - plotting all kinds of things for the future.
My CD chapbook 'The Wisdom of Bees' is funded by Arts Council England.
I also write poetry, essays and short stories for publication, have won or been placed in national competitions including second place in The Asham Literary Awards, first place in Chelsea Flower Show poetry competition, short-listed for London Art's 'Art of Love' Poetry competition and two honourable mentions in Library of Avalon short story competitions. In 2008 won first prize in City of Wells International poetry competition; have had poems published in Acumen, Sentinel, Poetrybay, The Ugly Tree, Tears in The Fence, Lucid Rhythms, Festival Eye, Moor Poets anthologies & spoken word CD 'Uncharted'.
I enjoy supporting and collaborating with other poets & performers on all kinds of projects, and especially love working in schools and with community groups. I also teach 'Wild Words', a dynamic creative writing and poetry course for adults, via the Workers Education Association (Exeter branch).
" The destabilising mellifluousness of Lucy's tone elegantly contrasts with the insightful candor of her poetry." Byron Vincent
'...brightly illuminated by concentration of language and tender attentiveness to the world (...and a great deal of humour)'' Andrew Motion
"As good as Kipling!" Alan Titchmarsh
"A wonderfully accessible, life-affirming poet with great range, bold imagery, warmth and wit. I'd recommend anyone to listen to Lucy Lepchani'Matt Harvey
My new, sporadic blog at http://www.blogspot.lucylepchani.com
The above recording of GRANDMA HAS SEWN THUNDER was first published on www.poetrybay.com. Thank you George Wallace, Geraldine Green & Poetrybay. Also thanks to Digger for the sound track (see diggerandthedigits on myspace)

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Member Since: 07/05/2007
Band Website: www.lucylepchani.co.uk
Influences: In no particular order: Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, William Blake, Kate Tempest, thunderstorms, chocolate, Dartmoor, charity shops, stone circles, Greek ferries & island hopping, bodyboarding, 1970's punk, shoes, burlesque, the Devon & Cornwall Atlantic coastline, Annie Besant, lipstick, seashores, Jimi Hendrix, holy wells, burial mounds, Greenpeace, Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx, Raoul Vaneigem, Kate Millet, Max Dashu, Marija Gimbutas, Mary Wollestoncraft, Billy Bragg, Minoan culture, the Isle of Arran, running, gardening, archaeology, my passport, good journeys, mountains, forests, turquoise oceans, raves, rallies, Ken Livingstone, animist realities, world mythologies, Joseph Campbell, Matt Harvey, Zena Edwards, Carole-Ann Duffy, Jay Leeming, Dylan Thomas, Dr. Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Tony Benn, Rooibosch tea, The Levellers, Dartmoor (again), Augusto Boal, Stonehenge Festival, Sean Hellman, alcohol, silence, the Bardic traditions, Zen, Peace Activists, good community, Sara Hurley, Jackie Juno, psychedelia in all of its manifestations, Committee for a Workers International, Moor Poets, poetry performers everywhere, Byron Vincent, Mim Darlington, Rebecca Gethin, Marty Mulligan from Mullingar, Dennis Gould, Tony Walsh, Chelley McLear, Ebele, Aime Hansen, Dennis Just Dennis, John G. Hall, looking at the moon through a telescope, my asthma inhaler, crochet, brilliant friends (I am blessed with them), the Open University, poetry activists, Physical theatre, Nigel Charnock, Apples & Snakes, birdsong - especially blackbirds, nightingales, owls, curlews, songthrush, stonechats; wassailing, Beltane fires, Manu Chao, Jimi Hendrix, Bellowhead, carnival, bees, honey, my beautiful and beloved children, Shakespeare, Inua Phaze Ellams, Mud Sun, Robert W. Service, my grandmother Santonim Lepchani, 'EarthFirst', Alice walker, Boudicca, Simone de Beauvoir, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Ghandi, Dalai Lama, our ancestors, my family, art, wood, trees, a new notebook and good pen, now, today...

Sounds Like: Butter-wouldn't-melt-in-my-mouth but I'll bite the head off a fascist.
Record Label: livingwage
Type of Label: Indie

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