52 for 26
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Arts and Culture
52 For 26 Poetry Project: Louise Evans
Louise Evans – Where Language, Feeling, and Music Meet in a Moment of Joy Louise Evans arrives to the 52 for 26 project with an academic’s precision and a performer’s instinct for rhythm. Fresh from completing her doctorate, an exploration of Spanish, digital poetry, and the ways female identities are shaped and reshaped in the contemporary creative economy, Evans brings a thoughtful, multilingual sensibility to her work. She teaches Spanish at the University of Liverpool…
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52 For 26 Poetry Project: Pete Scott
Everyday life, mental health, and the rhythms of the city captured in verse Pete Scott is part of the quieter but no less vital strain of voices on Liverpool’s poetryscene. An autistic poet, he draws much of his inspiration from the observations ofeveryday life, from the rhythms of a city and its people, and from the challenges andcomplexity of mental health. He’s taken to open‐mics around Liverpool to share hiswork, and is currently working on…
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52 For 26 Poetry Project: Irene Stuart
A personal journey from trauma to creative expression, told through poetryLiverpool has long been a city shaped by the voices of women who had to speak up long before anyone thought to listen. Irene Stuart is one of them. A playwright and poet who came to writing later in life, she discovered the power of the written word after decades spent raising two children, five grandchildren, and now four great-grandchildren. What followed was a creative…
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52 For 26 Poetry Project: Melissa Grindon
Melissa Grindon is a Liverpool-based writer, originally from Ireland. Her backgroundblends dance and literature — she holds a First Class MA in Writing from Liverpool JohnMoores University and a First Class BA in Dance from Liverpool Hope University. Overtime she has moved from movement to the written word, drawn to the power ofstorytelling grounded in truth. Her debut poetry collection, Everything Grows When YouBury It, self-published in September 2025, is already circulating in local Liverpoolbookshops…
