What Meets the Eye?

Lisa Kelly has single-sided deafness. She is also half Danish. Her first collection, A Map Towards Fluency, was published by Carcanet in 2019. Her poems have appeared in Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press) and Carcanet’s New Poetries VII. Her pamphlets are Philip Levine’s Good Ear (Stonewood Press) and Bloodhound (Hearing Eye). She is a regular host of poetry evenings at the Torriano Meeting House, London and is co-Chair of Magma Poetry. Lisa is co-editor of The Deaf Issue, Magma 69. She has been shortlisted four times for the Bridport Prize, longlisted for the National Poetry Competition twice and won the 2016 University of Lancaster (MA) ‘Reading’ Prize. She is currently studying British Sign Language, and her latest pamphlet, From The IKEA Back Catalogue, is published by New Walk Editions 2021. Sophie Stone is Co-Founder of Deaf & Hearing Ensemble Theatre Company and Associate Artist for The Watermill Theatre. She is an award-winning actor on stage and screen. Writing includes: Beethoven Essay Series (BBC Radio 3), Multiple Scenes of Destruction (The Bunker Theatre), Maybe (Paines Plough/CTWIF), Butterfly (Talking Bodies/Hot Coals)