Concrete Poetry with Iona Lee

Interdisciplinary poet, artist and performer Iona Lee will lead a workshop in visual, sound and concrete poetry writing exercises, encouraging writers to make no sense, nonsense and new sense of an area of poetic and artistic exploration.

Iona Lee is a poet, artist, music-maker, and spoken-word performer from Edinburgh. She has been a prominent member of Scotland’s live poetry scene for the past ten years, appearing on radio and television and reading her work in venues and on festival stages all over the UK and Europe. Iona has a BA in illustration from the Glasgow School of Art, and an MFA in Fine Art & Humanities from DJCAD, where she refined her interdisciplinary approach and focused on themes surrounding memory, magic, the ephemeral and the digital. In 2022, Iona won the John Byrne Award for her poetry film, Away With the Faeries – a retelling of the Tam Lin ballad.

Her debut poetry collection, Anamnesis (Polygon, 2023) was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Award and won the Somerset Maugham Award, after appearing on SNACK Magazine’s list of the top ten books to be published in Scotland in 2023.