Biography
Creative Eccentric ~ Spoken Word ~ Poet ~ Musician Natasha Borton has an MA in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University. She makes beautiful mouth words with Voicebox Spoken Word Collective in Wrecsam, North Wales. She danced to international souls as part of Talking Doorsteps with Roundhouse London and sang hymns with Spoken Witness, #Wordsfirst Manchester with BBC1Xtra and Roundhouse London. In 2015 she was commended for the Robin Reeves Prize for Young Welsh Writers and had her debut chapbook Signed Asbestos published as part of the Erbacce Prize 2015.
Samples
Extract from 'Small Hands' (...) In the back bedroom is a box China cracked and glued back together, Where my milk teeth sour. I held them in small hands, quickly too big and replaced the weight of them with Fairytales. I’d never tell you Just pull on loose teeth And find magic in the copper of blood The barbed wire edge We found you In the back bedroom Plaiting the hair of Barbie dolls When mine was knot and hairspray backcomb Tucking the whisper of Childhood into bed at tea time As the door slammed behind me Guilt rose in a heartburn chest Where the dance floor turned back to kitchen tiles You said that ironing Was a way of remembering And smile when you found opals in my mouth that I’d mistaken for teeth.
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