Old Wound
A poem by Emma Decent about a magical healing. Performed at ‘Wild’ women’s poetry event, Todmorden 2010.
Emma’s performance poetry and prose has been described as honest, insightful, funny and celebratory. She has had guest poet spots all over the north of England, and a slam win at the Uptown Poetry Slam in Chicago in 2010. In 2020 she developed an outdoor poetry performance, Words in the Wild. See below for more of Emma’s poetry and spoken word.
A poem by Emma Decent about a magical healing. Performed at ‘Wild’ women’s poetry event, Todmorden 2010.
A poem by Emma Decent about being with someone you love at the very end of their life. Performed at ‘Wild’ women’s poetry …
A poem by Emma Decent about dementia. Performed at Word Soup, Preston, Oct 2011
In 2011 Emma did the first solo show of her work ‘My heart is a place where flowers grow’ – a 50 …
A set I did at Open Minds, Manchester in March 2012. My poems: ‘I dare you’ and ‘Barbie lives’
A set I did at Stirred Poetry in Manchester, February 2011. My poems: ‘Crow of murders’, ‘Vigil’ and ‘What the stone said’.