Ross Sutherland began performing poetry aged seventeen, as support for punk-poet John Cooper Clarke. In 2000 he became one of the founding members of the live poetry collective, Aisle16, with whom he continues to tour the UK.

Aisle16’s theatre/poetry production Poetry Boyband received Time Out’s Critic’s Choice award for 2005 (21.12.05), and were included in The Sunday Times’s list of up-and-coming talent (28.12.05).

His recent poetry slam accolades include the winner of the North v South Slam (Apple & Snakes, Battersea, 2005) the North-West Second’s Out Slam (Apple & Snakes, Manchester, Feb 2005) and the UK v Canada Slam (Farrago, RADA, 2005). He has performed internationally at the Nitra Performing Arts Festival (2005), as well as competing in slams in Germany and Switzerland.

Ross has been published in a very small clutch of poetry journals (Reactions, Orbis) and is a regular contributor to Liverpool’s Mercy magazine (www.showmercy.co.uk). In 2002 he co-edited the new-writing collection Rock/text (Pen & Inc) with Gary Dylan Seal.

Currently writing a thesis on computer-generated poetry, Ross also runs poetry workshops in schools/prisons/community centres across the North West. Since June 2002, he has been the host of monthly multimedia poetry club, known as Fiction - www.brandnewqualitypoetics.co.uk

Ross lives in Liverpool, existing predominantly in the third-person.

Press Quotes

“Sublimely twisted” The Scotsman

“Stromschnellen” Basel Zeitgung

“If he thinks I’m an imperialist, he’s not using the same dictionary as me” Andrew Motion

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