Lettie Mckie

Biography

Lettie Mckie works in Gallery Education and writes prolifically in her spare time. She writes theatre reviews, art articles, blogs and poetry. She also curates poetry events and performs her own stuff regularly around the London spoken word circuit. Other recent writing projects include blogging for a Dulwich Street Art project called Baroque the Streets and writing book reviews for Sabotage poetry website. She's currently working on her one woman poetry show about embracing spinsterhood and cats!

Samples

Is it just me? Or do you agree? That the most disagreeable thing that can be Is being perved on by ugly old men. Is it just them? As they cough up the phlegm From smoking ten fags every hour. Do they honestly think, when they're stinking of drink That a girl in her twenties would be Happy at all with their base mating call Not driven almost to the brink? Is it just the beer, when they start to leer? The drink bubbling away in their guts. Their bald heads are shining Their trousers too tight Do they think that barmaids are sluts?

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