A solo poetry performance from Liv Torc, inspired by her new book The Human Emergency.

£15 for seat at Seed Factory – Includes glass of wine and canapés!

£5 on Zoom

Liv Torc is a poet, performer, artist and project weaver, who plunders the vast caverns and dormant volcanoes of the human and planetary condition. A Radio 4 Slam winner, a former Bard of Exeter, host of The Rainbow Fish Speakeasy and of The Hip Yak Poetry Shack. Liv runs the poetry stage at WOMAD, Hot Poets and the lockdown haiku and photography project, Haiflu – as featured on the BBC’s Radio 4 Today Programme.

In 2019 her climate change in the face of motherhood poem The Human Emergency went viral across the world and she performed at Glastonbury Festival. In 2021/22 she completed a year-long Herstory commission with Poet in the City and the British Library and became the Lead Artist for a nationwide ‘Women Writing Lockdown’ project with the University of Lincolnshire.

Liv is also the Co-Director of Hot Poets, the international climate science and poetry project, aimed at cutting through the doom and despair and communicating the real stories of climate science and ingenuity that we don’t get to hear. Hot Poets took Liv inside COP26, performing for the Met Office and the United Nations. Hot Poets is now about the embark on a long-term partnership with the UNFCCC, the branch of the UN that run COP.

As a poet Liv has just finished touring her Arts Council funded show ‘Haiflu Ever After’ and has recently appeared on Poetry Please and supported both Roger McGough and Hollie McNish. This year alone she has presented at TEDxLondonWomen and NBC Universal and performed at the Barbican and the Southbank Centre.

Her books include Show Me Life (2015), Banana Poems (2021) and The Human Emergency (2021).

“You don’t get any better than Liv Torc” – Roger McGough