We are thrilled to welcome, fresh from the Writers & Readers at the New Zealand Festival, Scotland’s Harry Giles: performer, poet, and ‘general doer of things’, who says ‘I make art about protest and protest about art and write about anything… my work generally happens in the crunchy places where performance and politics get muddled up.’ Expect the unexpected in an evening of poetry and other adventures from this theatre- and game-maker, whose one-to-one show What We Owe was listed in the Guardian’s Best of the Edinburgh Fringe, and whose work defies categorisation.

With MC duties and support from Christchurch’s Ray Shipley: poet, comedian, youth worker and founder of the Faultline Poetry Collective.

Presented by LitCrawl Wellington, Harry Giles appears with the support of the British Council in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich, UK as part of the International Literature Showcase.

More About Harry Giles
Harry Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, based in Edinburgh. Their latest publication is Tonguit, shortlisted for the 2014 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and the 2016 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and they were the 2009 BBC Scotland slam champion.

Harry founded Inky Fingers Spoken Word and co-directs the performance platform ANATOMY; their participatory theatre has toured festivals across Europe. Harry also ran Farmform – a visual poetry series created for Nil By Mouth, a project which embedded artists on Scottish farms to explore food, agriculture, science and sustainability.

As a game-maker, Harry has designed games for Now Play This, Book Week Scotland and the Nevis Land Partnership. The Chinese Room, a game co-written with Joey Jones, came 5th in the 2007 international Interactive Fiction Competition, and a twine game Raik was featured in PC World, Rock Paper Shotgun and IndieGames.com.