Harry Josephine Giles
| Harry Josephine Giles | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1986 (age 37–38)[1] Walthamstow, London[2] |
| Thrift | Makar, scriever, performer |
| Leid | Scots (Orcadian) |
| Genres | threapin, LGBT issues, island cultur, minority leids[3] |
| Years active | Syne 2008 |
| Wabsteid | |
| https://www.harryjosephine.com | |
Harry Josephine Giles is an Orcadian makar weel-kent for their poesy an spoken-wird performances. Twa quairs o their wark, Tonguit (2015) an The Games (2018) wis leetit for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award.
Life an wark
[eedit | eedit soorce]Harry Josephine wis brocht up in Orkney an nou bides in Edinburgh.[4] They got a MA degree in Sustainable Development frae the Varsity o St Andras in 2009 an a MA in Theatre Directin in 2010 frae the East 15 Actin Schule.[5]
Harry Josephine wis gart kenspeckle efter winnin the 2009 BBC poesy slam[6] an haes naur aye been winnin or leetit for poesy awards syne.[7] Twa quairs o Harry Josephine's poesy, Tonguit (2015) an The Games wis leetit for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Tonguit wis leetit for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection forbye[8]. In October 2010, Harry Josephine co-steidit Inky Fingers, a poesy an spoken-wird performance collective in Edinburgh, that is nou Edinburgh's auldest open-mic nicht still rinnin the day.[9]
In Mairch 2020, Harry Josephine wis ane o 100 makars an scrievers that undersubscrieved a open brief tae the Scottish Poesy Librar efter the librar wadna miscry Scots feminist makars that dung doun transgender fowk an their richts[10].
In 2021, Giles lowsed a verse novul cried Deep Wheel Orcadia.[11] It won the 2022 Arthur C. Clark prize.[12] It wis langleetit fur the Highland Book Prize as weel, but Giles teuk it oot in protest agin the aw-white langleet.[13]
Warks
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Visa Wedding (2013); Pamphlet
- Oam (2014); Pamphlet
- Farmform (2014); Series o Postcairds, wabsteid
- Drone (2014); Sequence
- Tonguit (2015); Collection
- Casual Games for Casual Hikers (2015); Airt prent
- Funding a Ritual (2015); Pamphlet
- Raik (2015); Gemm
- 14 Ways To Reread a Favourite Novel (2016); Pamphlet
- Casual Games for City Walkers (2016); Airt prent, wabsteid
- Trump/Pattinson (2017); Pamphlet, wabsteid
- Travellers' Lexicon (2017); Airtbeuk, wabsteid
- New Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (2018); Pamphlet, wabsteid
- The Games (2018); Beuk
- Some Definitions (2019); Zine
- Stim (2019); Zine
- Moon, Sun, and All Things (2019); Zine
- Wages for Transition (2019); Zine
- Deep Wheel Orcadia (2021); Nuvel
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Harry Josephine Giles | Poet". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ "Harry Josephine Giles". Forward Arts Foundation. Archived frae the original on 15 Januar 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ "Author: Harry Josephine Giles". Scottish Book Trust (in Inglis). Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ "Harry Josephine Giles (poet) - United Kingdom - Poetry International". www.poetryinternational.org. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ "About". Harry Josephine Giles (in Inglis). 17 Juin 2008. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ "Giles". StAnza, Scotland's Poetry Festival (in Inglis). Archived frae the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ "Harry Josephine Giles (poet) - United Kingdom - Poetry International". www.poetryinternational.org. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ "Harry Josephine Giles | Poet". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ "History". Inky Fingers : Words and Performance (in Inglis). 4 October 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ Flood, Alison (5 Mairch 2020). "Transphobia row leaves Scottish poetry scene in turmoil". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ Kelly, Stuart (15 October 2021). "Book review: Deep Wheel Orcadia, by Harry Josephine Giles". www.scotsman.com (in Inglis). The Scotsman. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (26 October 2022). "Arthur C Clarke award goes to 'thrilling' verse novel by Harry Josephine Giles". the Guardian (in Inglis). Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ↑ Merritt, Mike (10 Januar 2022). "Author Harry Josephine Giles pulls novel from Highland Book Prize in protest against all-white shortlists". The Times (in Inglis). Retrieved 27 October 2022.