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sue h

That woman from Yorkshire! Poet / Storyteller Writer.

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Hi all..I'm a exile from Hemsworth, West Yorkshire now based in the Black Country in the Heart of the West Midlands.I am a poet, with a preference for performance this is where I rock and roll, or rant and tell about life. I am a Storyteller in the age old oral tradition. In other words I don't read out loud....I perform it's all in the head and out through the mouth!I am the current writer in residence with my local authority. But my main pleasure in writing and performance is enabling/freeing the words lives and feelings of people who need support to express their creativity.i.e. workshops etc.I have been involved in a wonderful project, take a look at the Virtual Newspaper at www.art-of-westend.co.uk in my home town Hemsworth back in Yorkshire a former mining community. Here you can see and hear me perform some associated writings from the project; known as The Belonging.Really interested in linking up and sharing friends with like minded people...are you out there? Performance poets or people who write womens words and womens lives.I am becoming very interested in Stand Up and hope to brave the stage soon at a open mike!

My Interests



Cool Myspace Contact Tables Family/People...Community/voluntary work. Poetry performance, Spoken Word, Storytelling. Live Music.... Reading...music...hanging onto my roots.Gardening, Chillin.

I'd like to meet:

Aretha Franklin//Toni Morrison....would have loved to have met Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, John Lennon.The performers from Def Jam Poetry New York... Paul Wellar. Bob Dylan.Janet Street Porter. Peoplewho are funny. My family in Poland...one day we will be reunited!The man who bakes my favourite Polish bread, somewhere in Smethwick.Ha Ha...Tony Benn....you old darling.Alan Bennett....you wonderful old fart!

Music:

Still trying to list my 10 desert island discs..very broad interest here. Creative musicians..Singers/songwriters who make me think, cry, make me want to dance....soul, blues, funk, jazz.

Movies:

Color Purple. Scent of a Woman...Tango scene..the musics a wow! A Room with a View. Cinema Paradiso.Billy Elliot..Brassed Off!.....filmed near my Home Town.

Television:

Grand Designs.(passion and creativity)..Social History also history of mostly roots/music..particularly soul, tamla.....music docs...Drama, a good play. Characters in some of the soaps...brilliant.

Books:

Toni Morrison, Tony Harrison. Larkin, Babel any Jewish Eastern European writers.Feminist novels... Survivors of War....Adversity... Personal histories and testimomies.Oral histories and how these are becoming inncreasingly important! And the books that were never written...the stories and personal histories that are not shaped in to curriculum etc

Heroes:

My Father born in Kovel Poland now Ukraine. My Mother born in Hemsworth West Yorks. My husband and sons... Miners and their wives and fams in the strike...the working class..True socialists...people who challenge towards making positive changes for people. Socialist feminists......Mother Teresa...Women in Zimbabwe today!