- About
- Rupert Mallin
About Rupert Mallin
Over 400 poems published in magazines and journals in the UK and
abroad; plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and others staged in
theatre. Volumes of poetry published include 'Suffer
Suffolk' (joe soap's canoe) and 'Blood in the Thistle
Bowl' (Redbeck Press).
Have held a number of writing and mixed arts residencies in
schools and the community, and have delivered hundreds of
projects, workshops and courses.
Recent work includes: 'Rant Score' (pavement poems) shown
at the Taxi Gallery 2004; 'The Town Hall Installation,'
SeaChange Studios, 2004; the Air Field Collaboration 2004–5;
'Site Specific Project,' 2005; Waterways' 'The
Dragon Hall Project,' 2006; and work for Norfolk Arts
Partnership (a series of youth democrary projects), 2006-7.
Confidence
she was
as confident as
the path is
as the road signs are
as her star sign is
as water is
as a sheet of paper is
as newsprint is &
confidence stole her away &
ate into her pathway &
bypassed June &
froze her footsteps &
turned her map into wires &
took her words from the paper
but all the words she learnt told her to hang on
so she
H
U
N
G
O
N
&
she was as
confident as
the path is
as the road signs are
as her star sign is
as water is
as a sheet of paper is
as newsprint is &
confidence stole her away &
ate into her pathway &
bypassed June &
froze her footsteps &
turned her map into wires &
took her words from the paper
but all the words she learnt told her to hang on
so she
H
U
N
G
Rupert Mallin