Clive Birnie

Clive Birnie is a poet-artist-printmaker who works in both text and visual media. He finds inspiration at a place where poetry and art collide into something which gets called text-based-art but sometimes he types up the results as text only poems. He was the Hashtag# poet in residence at the StAnza International Poetry Festival in 2016. He has exhibited work at the Saatchi backed The Other Art Fair, the Evolver Prize Exhibition, the Royal West of England Academy Open, Spike Island (during Paul Hawkins’s Poem Brut event), the Clifton branch of cafe chain Boston Tea Party and in the public space of Millennium Square, Bristol. His experimental poetry sequence Terminal Insemination Art was published by Silkworms Ink in 2012 and a montage poetry project Cutting Up The Economist by Burning Eye in 2014. His first novel Time Travel Hotel (which he describes as an anarchic dystopian satire) was published by Burning Eye in April 2015. As a writer Clive aims for what he terms "accessible experimentation". "I believe you can experiment as a writer still entertain, still maintain a coherent narrative and keep the reader turning the page." He won the Wyvern Prize at the 2013 Wells Festival of Literature for his poem The Fleshmaker's Wife which was described by Wes White as "a superb fantasy (almost horror) vignette from the shoreline of the subconscious".