Josiane Smith

@Backyard_Comedy, Scott Campurro was racist, rude and sexist; his views on Muslims and the Middle East were distasteful. Hard no 🤮

It was an incredible room to be a part of tonight. #FreeAlaa

Thank you so much to Magma @magmapoetry for publishing my poem 'Talk, talk' in the latest 'Performance' issue. Thrilled to be amongst such a panoply of fine poets.

Major excitement today as contributor copy of @magmapoetry arrived. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 to all the editors. This has made my day, probably week and year.

@RachelLBurnsme @magmapoetry It made my day, week and year on a pretty regular basis getting it published! Very glad the feeling is mutual ;)

The poem vs her muse…. (a coaster at work) thrilled to have a poem in the latest “performance” issue of @magmapoetry had a lovely evening reading all the amazing poems in the issue 💛

@aliakobuszko @magmapoetry What a great poem (and coaster!)

Delighted to receive my contributor copy of @magmapoetry a dream journal for me - alongside so many great poets!

Love this playful gratitude poem by @katdixon2012 in the latest issue of Magma (Performance) — it magicked up a much-needed smile ☺️

My sister's poem ‘Remembrance’ in the latest ‘Performance’ issue of @magmapoetry The poem explores how we are forced to 'perform' to mask grief. In memory of our father.

@theladysmaid @magmapoetry RIP 🙏🏽 We're so glad we were able to hold this poem and its meaning in these gentle pages. What an issue. Well done Nicola!

Thank you @davidsocialsp and @JosianeSmith for featuring my translation of "Pantomime"!

@danielnemo @davidsocialsp Our pleasure! Beautiful poem and translation. "Not a word is spoken on stage." 👀

Very excited to have a new poem in @magmapoetry Issue 89 Performance alongside other brilliant poets. If you want to know what the poem is about, come to the launch. It's free 😊 eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-issue-…

Really glad my poem 'Mutism' was accepted for this issue, it's a really important one for me. As someone who came into the world of poetry through performance, I knew straight away I wanted to get involved in this 🙏🏾 Big love to the editors for resonating with the work!

@fxmpoetry I LOVED IT

I've a new poem, 'Magician's Trick with Scissors', published in @magmapoetry 89: Performance. Some remarks on the issue and its contents here: gojonstonego.com/blog/2024/07/2…

Tickled and charmed to have new work in the 'Performance' edition of the lovely & liberally read @magmapoetry. I'm also looking forward to the launch party this Friday! 🎭🎉 On a more serious note, the long poem chosen by the editors wasn't laboured over. I worked on it 48 hrs before submission in two sittings, once while half asleep on a bolster. Rather than being a brag, this is an interesting lesson in honesty...it's the only truly vulnerable autobiographical poem I've shared, and I believe it's this raw directness and honesty that earned the piece its pages... along with a fun play on the premise of Woolf's Orlando🖊 When attending dance classes in Uppingham Methodist Church hall in the early nineties I got hooked on my first real career ~ ballet training ~ and all the self-discipline, obsession and ambition that comes with that. It was a sacred escape from the insecurities of school, and when I had to let that early career go, all that fervour & escapism was redirected into acting training...and finally...into writing. I count myself fortunate in having lived multiple careers and lifestyles in one, despite the emotional implications, financial hardships and adaptation this has entailed... You can read My Life as Orlando around page 33, sandwiched between some excellent contemporary poets... 👇  #poetry #theatre