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Narratives in life and poetry with poet and wheelchair user Stephen Lightbown
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In this episode Helen is talking with Stephen Lightbown about poets shifting access to online events, and writing authentic human endurance stories.
Stephen Lightbown is a Bristol based poet who writes extensively but not exclusively about his life as a wheelchair user. His debut collection, Only Air, was published in 2019 and his follow up collection The Last Custodian, will be published in June 2021.
Stephen was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. In 1996, aged 16, he experienced a life changing accident whilst sledging in the snow and is now paralysed from below the waist. Stephen writes extensively but not exclusively about life as a wheelchair user.
He has spoken at events across the UK and at festivals such as Shambala, Womad, Verve Poetry Festival and Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. In addition, Stephen has read internationally in San Antonio, Texas.
In March 2019 Stephen’s first poetry collection, Only Air, was published by Burning Eye Books and his second collection The Last Custodian, a dystopian novella in poetry form, will be published again by Burning Eye Books in June 2021. His poems have been anthologised by Verve Poetry Press, Hachette Children’s Group, The Poetry Business and Squares & Rebels.
Social media link @spokeandpencil
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