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Jasmine Ann Cooray

About Me

Jasmine Ann CoorayJasmine Ann Cooray is a writer, poet, and creative innovator. She writes with soul and precision, transforming intimate everyday relationships and painting the world into something you want to look at twice. Her performances are warm, animated and affecting. Jasmine founded the Brighton’s monthly sell-out performance night Floetics and is now building a signature range of site-specific creative writing workshops called WRITELondon, which generate rich material for their participants. Jasmine is the winner of both the Farrago Summer Slam and the Farrago Award for Best Feature Debut Performance in addition to runner up at the Roundhouse Slam in 2007. Her poems will be shortly published under the Spread the Word mentorship scheme, FLIGHT.(About Floetics.....)Floetics is a monthly established sellout performance evening for new artists in Brighton. It regularly features rising stars making music and words scene and gives people a chance to grab the open mic in an encouragaing atmosphere and bright, classy venue. Organised by multitasking creative legend Luska Mengham and hosted with pizzaz by Jasmine, people go away warm, inspired and often with a desire to keep writing, or, even better, start writing. We also include the added bonus of a poster colouring in competition- the best poster each month gets fame and fortune in all Brighton’s venues! Come and discover our magic if you have not yet done so…..

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Member Since: 5/26/2007
Band Website: www.jascribble.wordpress.com
Influences: Kayo Chingonyi, Bernadette Cremin, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Ellen Bass, Elova, Mia Riddle, Excentral Tempest, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Inua Ellams.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Blue Movie Starlet

This messy room was not what you expected, no silk-lined boudoir smelling of rose water, incense beckoning a finger through muslin. Instead: knickers. Pale smudged gussets that grimace at you. Indi...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:47:00 GMT

so..

Right, I'm confused because I can't decide where online to post my blogs, out of all these trillion social networking sites, plus blogs and journals. so, time to assess what I actually need, I think. ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:13:00 GMT

Skin and Bones

That depressed waif of a man Became fat because of you. Slow filling Balloon of a belly laughing The same name over and suddenly Smiling his shine shine face at babies. At dinner he'd order the lot Wi...
Posted by on Sat, 26 May 2007 18:27:00 GMT

Tightrope

Curled in giggling defeat, the weight of the day stoops me, finally, against your chest. You will be there, I know, and watching your dry palms open, I fall in, balancing on your lifeline like a tigh...
Posted by on Sat, 26 May 2007 18:25:00 GMT

Chilli Blood

Midnight A man lay in a hospital bed. I saw with alarm, that he couldn't live forever. It was the way his flesh had receded back from his skin like a last tide. Eyes that would usually spark with t...
Posted by on Sat, 26 May 2007 18:23:00 GMT

Third Wheel

  Through the chink in the door I caught your moment smack in the chest. Like a birth, intense and private but familiar as an alarm clock, waking this late riser to the discomfort of a love th...
Posted by on Sat, 26 May 2007 18:22:00 GMT