Based in Scotland, I travel anywhere to perform, speak or lecture at festivals, conferences, schools and other events. Please get in touch below to discuss your needs. N.B. Scottish events / residencies can be part-funded via the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Programme – author profile.
Blue: a lament for the sea
Spoken Word by Liz MacWhirter, Film by Jonathan Kearney
Blue: a lament for the sea (Stewed Rhubarb Press 2025) is available as an immersive performance. The poem is spoken live amidst an abstract film of the underwater sea, lasting 20-25 minutes. Combined with dancer Sander Vloebergs, it may also be a choreopoetic piece. Another option is follow the performance with a Q&A / discussion on the themes of the poem, tailored to the audience.
Sample blurb:
An ancient Scottish Gaelic prophecy foretells a third flood at the end of time. It proclaimed waters will sweep over all lands, save for the sacred Isle of Iona. Words that wintered a thousand years unfold in ‘Blue: a lament for the sea’, haunting the Anthropocene in a medieval-style dream vision. This performed reading is one woman’s journey through ecological grief at the rising seas of climate change, while an immersive underwater film floods the space.
Please get in touch to discuss your event needs.
“Stunning performance” All Borders Blur
“Mesmerising” Poetry Off The Page
“Blue: a lament for the sea is a powerful work of mourning and hauntings. At once elegy and call to arms, this is a spellbinding meditation on margins and oceanic longing that leaves the reader changed.” Poet and novelist, Carolyn Jess-Cooke
“In haunting, melodic lyric, MacWhirter turns language itself into a ‘thin place’ of remembering, reckoning and renewal.” Jenn Ashworth, author of Ghosted.
Liz MacWhirter Novelist & Poet 