How To Show Up? with Sophie Collins (SCT/NL)

THE FOREST FIRE
Sophie Collins
Doors open at 19:00 reading begins at 19:30

 

‘Sometimes there is no intent in what we say; we simply feel a compulsion to say it. Only after we say the thing are we forced to reckon with it.’

 

The Forest Fire is a fragmentary narrative with accompanying visuals based on a brief encounter with Piero di Cosimo’s painting of the same name.
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Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help and shame, was published by Book Works in 2017 as part of a commissioned residency at Glasgow Women’s Library. Her first poetry collection, Who Is Mary Sue?, was published by Faber & Faber in February 2018. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Durham University.

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How To Show Up? is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts)