Mostly, it’s just me and the microphone. Sometimes the little book too, with new poems or re-drafts that I can’t remember yet. All sorts. Most subjects. Traditional and contemporary. Heartfelt or flippant, passionate or witty and some that can’t make their minds up what they are.

Some get spoken on stages, locally and around the country, and in Ireland, at national arts festivals, literary events & venues including these:

Poetry & Words at Glastonbury Festival – Ways With Words Literary Festival at Dartington – Torbay Poetry Festival – The Gallery Sessions at the Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple – Forked at the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth – Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, Dorset – Larmer Tree Festival, Wiltshire – Croissant Neuf Summer Party, Wales – The Leviathan at The Electric Picnic, Portlaoise, Ireland – The International Bar, Dublin – Wondermentalist Cabaret, Totnes – The Epicentre Book Café, Paignton – The Blue Walnut Café, Chelston – The Great Hall, Dartington’s 100 Thousand Poets for Change event 2011 – as well as pubs, bars, cafes, village halls, living rooms, weddings, parties and park-benches in London, Manchester, Dublin, Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, and The Isle of Arran.

One current project is with fellow spoken-word artists Sara Hurley and Rachel Miller, for our show ‘Telling the Way Back Home’

Some of my poems have also been published – in a number of magazines, journals and anthologies including Acumen Poetry Magazine, The Chimaera, Lucid Rhythms, Moor Poets Anthologies 1 and 2, Poetrybay online, Symmetry Pebbles, Tears In the Fence, The Spleen, The Ugly Tree, Unsung Magazine, PRSD online.

I have self-published brief pamphlets for events and exhibitions, and have an Arts Council funded CD of spoken word The Wisdom of Bees. Also, an anthology of poems, The Beckoning Wild, published by Acumen Poetry

Sometimes I combine words with artwork: words painted on pebbles & arranged on the ground or poems laminated on transparencies and suspended between trees, or combined with mixed media - like my husband Sean’s photography, and hung on gallery walls; or carved onto wooden seating that he makes.

I’m compelled to write poems and to find them places in the world, and to read poems by others, or listen to them, encourage the writing of them and to support events that involve poetry and spoken word.

Some of my poems have won prizes in literary competitions. Ages ago.  But they’re a bit coy about it now.

 Quotes by others:

‘…brightly illuminated language and tender attentiveness to the world (… and a great deal of humour).’
- Andrew Motion.

‘Lucy Lepchani handles language like a conjurer… full of linguistic surprises, delightful, sometimes challenging.’
- David Gill, poet and editor

‘Wide ranging pieces united by a vivid, visceral grasp of language.’
- Jan Fortune-Wood, Envoi magazine

‘A wonderfully accessible, life-affirming poet with great range, bold imagery, warmth and wit.’
- Matt Harvey.