I’m also a member of The Word Birds, a flock of women poets who have thus far performed UK-wide, taking a bird’s eye view of human relationships and more.
Sixfold
I belong to Sixfold, six widely published Lancaster-based poets with many well-received collections and awards between us. We work together in themed performances, giving readings that celebrate our varieties of approach, language and voice. “the theme was a real force of unity that gave the programme a shaped quality, with impetus and flow, community and diversity”.
Ripple
Triptych exploring the fragility of life by examining the impact of climate change on the Indian subcontinent. Installation includes interactive poetic sculptures, that use both sculptural extension and augmented reality to illuminate anthropogenic climate change. Collaboration with Maya Chowdhry. Exhibited at Menier Gallery, London as part of GFEST. November
Project website: Ripple
Time to Read
I am part of the Time to Read initiative for Libraries in the North West
Colne Rising
Climate change has become climate chaos, and even 75 miles inland is not safe from the sea. A series of short spoken-word performances will submerge you in this new world with its own history, populated by seemingly familiar people, places and stories. But as with all future scenarios nothing is certain…
While you can download the walk map here, you might be as well to use the ordance survey leisure map OL21 as a backup. The walk begins at Marsden Park, HD7 6ER
Download and listen to the story here: audio files
Or download the viewranger app to listen in situ
I made a limited edition artist book incorporating images from Talya Baldwin’s original artwork. If you’d like to buy a copy, please get in touch
Time and Tide
An archival project aimed at uncovering hidden stories of life and death on Morecambe’s Home Front during WW1.
An exhibition, made by Lisa Wigham, will tour the Bay towns in summer 2015.
Project website: Time and Tide
Lune Rising
The year is 2060. Sea levels have surged. Lancaster is reduced to Castle Island. A voice, the sole remaining inhabitant, guides you around this un/familiar coastline. …
A self-guided audio tour created for Lancaster’s First Friday in June 2015
You can download it from Soundcloud and listen to it at home, or have it ready should you ever find yourself in Lancaster
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Host
(Waterloo, 2010) £11 inc p+p
“The voices, the stories, the detail and the imagery are powerful, superbly-crafted and original.” Bernardine Evaristo
“The poetry is earthy and takes a no-nonsense approach to setting out their journey from community-based god-fearing and pious, through to the complexity, toughness and verging on faithlessness, of modernity.” Anne Stewart in Artemis
“… excellent at capturing social and religious codes of behaviour, with the acuity of Austen or Alice Munro … Host is a tactile and muscular collection, rooted in the complexities and textures of the physical world. Hymas has created fresh and exuberant work that, at its best, captures the awe of being alive.“ Sarah Westcott
Waterloo Press have a few copies left… I think
Please be patient. Orders can take up to a week to ‘process’
To buy or review any of the books, either use paypal or contact me on sehymas [at] gmail [dot] com
Tales from the Towpath
A treasure hunt of a storytrail found in geocaches, zappar codes, origami boats and a performance. Made for Manchester Literature Festival by myself, Maya Chowdhry, Michelle Green and Helen Varley Jamieson.
Project website: Tales from the Towpath
Frankenscience of Poetry
A poetry/science/film making project, funded by Clore Duffield Literature Awards. A collaboration with filmmaker Hafsah Naib and poet Helen Clare. You can watch the finished films here
Project website: Frankenscience of Poetry