My next performances:
"Thanks so much for your reading on Saturday – brimful of passion, fire and good humour." Roy Hutchins of Brainfruit
"You were fantastic! I've never before ENJOYED someone reading their short stories (but you're different)!"
Jane Kitson - writer and performer
Jane Kitson - writer and performer
Ophelia's Sistas
"Bursting with energy, exuberance and excitement, this performance has huge emotional swings. Moving, stimulating and often hilarious, these sistas will have you crossing your legs and wiping your eyes."
Anna Turner - Calderdale's Literature Development Officer
Prize-winning poets Char March and Valerie Laws have joined forces to tour with their award-winning new collections. They are both acclaimed and experienced performers and – as Ophelia’s Sistas – they make a formidable team. They take their audiences on an exploration of pathology, wild sex, dementia, lost pigeons, flirting at funerals, dogs in space, insanity – and more! Their poetry is deeply moving and very funny.
Their latest collections –‘The Thousand Natural Shocks’ and
‘All That Lives’ – take their titles from their sister’s indecisive ex.
You didn’t know Ophelia had two sisters? Well, one is straight and rampant, the other lesbian (and therefore virtually celibate); both are crips – ooops, persons with disabilities – but definitely no drowning in brooks for these hyperactive world travellers!
"Ophelia's Sistas fantastic at Southwell Poetry Festival last night. Funny, sad, moving - just overwhelming. Now I'm sitting on the bus reading the poems!"
Sheelagh Gallagher - Literature & Reading Development Officer
