This is a holding page for examples and excerpts of writing - to include poetry, articles, research, scripts, and projects in which writing features prominently as an action, result, collective process or a form of delegated witness.

Image left is the cover of the book TO YOU TO YOU TO YOU: Love Letters to a (Post)Europe, Live Art Development Agency, London, Lisa Alexander, Editor (2018)

and includes the prose-poetry work: ‘Between Us: a correspondence,’ Lisa Alexander and Mary Paterson (2018)

Other recent poetry and prose:

‘A chance to win £10,000 (housed)’

‘Being on Earth’

‘Is your country great? Is your town terrible? - After Your country is great by Ara Shirinyan

‘Heretogether weare (sing you into being)’ poetry/spoken word created for Poem Brut, Rich Mix, London (2019)

Writing for Performance, Text-led Installation and actions:

Filoxenia for Who Are We? at Tate Modern Tate Exchange, Lisa Alexander with invited artist-writers Mary Paterson, Jungmin Song and poet Saradha Soobrayen (2018)

‘To Be Host (Filoxenia)’ - another interpretation-continuation of ‘Filoxenia’ with Saradha Soobrayen (2020)

‘If/Then’ play commission - by Lisa Alexander and Hari Marini for After the Referendum, Camden People’s Theatre Commissioned by CPT, European Theatre Research Network (University of Kent), Inside/Outside Europe Research Network (University of Winchester) and Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre (2016)

It was awarded a First Edition commission at the National Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall where it was re-presented with several of the curated contributors reading (2017)

parsed utterance six channel sound and three screen video installation that poetically rearranged in time and space a series of thirty three recorded vocal responses to a single question, Jubilee Theatre, University of Roehampton (2014)

Writing the room - a collaborative online writing project enacted whilst driving from Athens to London with Vassiliki Dimou writing from Athens, Lucy Thane in London (2011)

‘Promote only acts of poetical terrorism’ - a textual action-occupation with Vassiliki Dimou at the University of Athens Philosophy Atrium, Athens and involved us using our bodies as spaces to be occupied by printed excerpts from reportage of the (then current) election campaigns in the UK and Greece. (2010)

Story Surgeries - transcriptions of one on one encounters that were originally recorded during a one on one encounter (2007-8)

More soon…