Sean Burn performance poet

Newcastle poet and performance artist Sean Burn makes a rare London appearance as part of the Together! 2015 Disability History Month Festival, followed by the end of festival party.

Sean Burn is a writer / performer / outsider artist with an international reputation. For most of this century he has been 'reclaiming the languages of lunacy' creatively, reflecting on his own lived experience of long-term mental distress with wit and humour.

The cutting edge of performance art/poetry. The forefront of the contemporary avant garde without discarding contemporary issues. This is writing that flows and mutates, collages, intertwining, overlapping, voices that make us contemplate. Alice Lenkiewicz, Neon Highway

Sean Burn weaves a seamless integration of the experimental, the lyrical and the political invariably served with large dressings of humour and with such blazing intent as no other contemporary poet, not even Benjamin Zephaniah, is able to convey. Tears in the Fence no 60, Autumn 2014

Sean Burn is one of this country's foremost experimental writers. he also draws from histories, political, social and personal, including his own, and this gives much of his work the potency of felt experience which so many who work in a similar vein, lack. Jeremy Hilton, Fire