Ross Sutherland
Port Eliot extends a warm welcome back to writer-poet Ross Sutherland, following the overwhelming success of last year’s Found in Translation, performed with Tim Clare and Joe Dunthorne. Described as “sublimely twisted” (Scotsman), Ross has won numerous awards and was included in the Times’s Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008. He’ll be performing his one-man show The Three Stigmata of Pacman at this year’s festival.
Born in Edinburgh in 1979, Ross works as a freelance journalist and tutor in creative writing alongside being a critically acclaimed poet and performer. He has co-written eight live literature productions, including Poetry Boyband, which featured fellow Port Eliot performer Luke Wright, and won the Time Out Critic’s Choice of the Year 2005 award. He had four productions touring in 2009 including Found in Translation, Infinite Lives, The Dead That Never Lived and The Shallowing Shovel. A regular at Port Eliot and Glastonbury, Ross’s debut solo collection of poems Things To Do Before You Leave Town was published in January 2009.
His new show is said to “bring together poetry, comedy and animation to tell the true story of his search for the cheapest form of time-travel. An exploration of self-fulfilling prophesies, time capsules, and moving back in with your parents.”
“In his extraordinarily assured hands…[his poetry] has the verbal urgency of rap, the wry self mockery of stand-up and a linguistic inquisitiveness all of its own.”
Time Out
“In his free-wheeling lyricism, caustic wit and brilliantly surreal turn of image, Sutherland is a truly contemporary original. His poetry rejuvenates techniques as disparate as collage, memoir, sound experiment and formal appropriation in vigorous but finely wrought lines.”
Luke Kennard on Ross Sutherland
Links:
- Read Ross Sutherland’s poems for Aisle 16 poetry collective
- Music OMH review of Ross Sutherland, alongside Luke Wright at The Red Lion:
Video:
Ross Sutherland recites his poem ‘The Love Conspiracy’:
