POETRY

Winner of the 2012 Sydney Poetry Prize and creator of Q-Poetics (Poetry in Queues).

Skye is a published performance poet and creator of ‘Q-POETICS’, (poetry in places and spaces of waiting – queues), which premiered at the Sydney Writers Festival 2013, opened the Kelpies, and was part of Cultural Programme for Commonwealth Games, Festival 2014. Her poetry has been performed at various festivals here and abroad, supporting Kae Tempest (Spoken Four, Sydney Writers Fest) and alongside Holly McNish (Marrickville Writers Fest, Aust)

Her performance poetry has included the long-form performance poem, The Line We Draw  Skye was Writer-in-Residence for Wigtown Book Festival 2016, sharing her poetry through the commute between Spring Fling artist’s studios, and performing This Impossible Rim in response to exhibitions on route.

Skye is currently working on a collection, You May Lose Your Fingerprint, which includes the collaborative film-poem with visual artist Adam Sebire, You May Lose Your Fingerprint (screened with the National Theatre of Scotland’s  Dear Planet COP26 day).

Publications include:

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• Causeway Magazine 2019 – ‘She-bushed’, ‘Bronte’
• Causeway Magazine  2021 – ‘Zoom-Broom’
• Abridged Magazine – ‘A Little Laugh I Lost Somewhere’, ‘ The Grin of Our Choices’
• Abridged Magazine – ‘Under House Arrest’, ‘Cusp’, ‘
• GRIST Anthology (ed Simon Armitage) – ‘Buying into the Property Market’
• Melbourne Books, Award Winning Australian Writing – ‘Rushcutters Bay, or I can’t decide’
• Cora Bissett’s performance, Whatever Gets You Through the Night
• Long-form performance poem: ‘The Line We Draw’
• Q-poetics filmed collection with Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Writers Festival, 2013

performance poetry:

• You May Lose Your Fingerprint film-poem with artist Adam Sebire – nationaltheatrescotland :
• ” I’ll Do a Budget ” performance poem 2-min
• I Won (or) I, One: Q-Poetics at Commonwealth Games, 2-min
• From Neon Bulb to Bone Grit: Sydney Writers Festival – McCain’s election pitch poem
• Contrast II: Sydney Writers Festival q-poetics collection – Alice Springs concert poem
• Nothing much makes sense to me but soil @8:44, Hidden Doors trailer 2021 – poem to camera

A passion for poetry on the page and in three dimensions, performances include:

Poet with the Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Writers Festival qpoetics
I’ll Do A Budget
Your Hands
Australia – Love It or Leave It
Please Sound Horn, Sound Horn OK
From Neon Bulb to Bone Grit
We’ve All Been Here Before (for ‘Whatever Gets You Through the Night’ directed by Cora Bissett, UK )

Sydney Writers Festival (2012 / 2011),
“Performoetics” (Red Rattler, Sydney),
Word in Hand (Sydney)
Sweetalkers (Melb)
The Dan & Passionate Tongues (Melbourne)
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Big Word Edinburgh
Aye Write Festival
Glasgow Mirrorball
“Discombobulate” at The Arches (Glasgow)
Tron Theatre Cabaret (Glasgow)
Is This Poetry? (Edinburgh)
Artists in Exile – Doulton Fountain commission, Glasgow

Including various festivals and schools through Word Travels, Australia

and Scottish Book Trust, with ConFAB (Aye Write Festival).

Residencies:

• Wigtown Book Festival
• Scottish Book Trust , Live Literature
• Cafe Poet with Australian Poetry and Ampersand Cafe, Sydney