Parm Kaur has been writing and publishing since the 1990’s. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC TV and BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 as well as being published widely and translated into Spanish, Danish, Urdu, Arabic and Serbo Croat.
Her plays have been seen on the London fringe and won international fellowships and awards.
Widely published in poetry books and anthologies
Walking the World Selected Poems from 1996-2016
Inside the Fourth Dimension Poetry chapbook, pub. Greenwich University, London (2003)
Anthologies
Displacement, Breaking British South Asian poetry Anthology, Redbeck, Bradford (2000)
Wiping the Wall, Where are the shoes? Bittersweet: Contemporary UK and US Black Women’s Poetry, K. McCarthy, Womens Press, London (1998)
Daring, Drinking The Fire People Anthology, ed. L. Sissay. Payback Press, Edinburgh (1998)
Poems published in International Journals and newspapers
How can you blame your mother? Black Arts in London (monthly periodical) Issue 131, 1990.
Identity Feminist Arts News Vol3, (8), 1993.
Old Woman, Where are the shoes? Los Angeles Review, Spring 2005
Old Woman, Key Songs, Bound Poetry Salzburg, Austria (Spring 2005),
Cousin-sister Index on Censorship (Summer 06).
Liminal, Prayer Gargoyle, Paycock Press, Issue 4, 1999 London
Bound, Held Flaming Spirits, Fire magazine, Wolf poetry journal,
Censorship East (national weekly)
You messed up Daily Express (national daily), (21.9.98)
Also published in Serbo-Croat (online), Spanish (Mexican chapbook), German (for Viennese radio), Danish (Trans Halle Europe Theatre Festival), Arabic – Anthology of British Poets 1950-2004
London
The Barbican theatre, Victoria Miro Gallery, Whitechapel Arts Gallery, Poetry Society Café, Southwark Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, Victoria Embankment Gardens, Cobden Club, Battersea Arts Centre, schools, colleges, universities, and conferences
OVERSEAS
Trans Halle Europe Theatre Conference, Copenhagen (1996), Bowery Club, New York (2005), Chez Friends, San Francisco (2005), The Sahitya Academy, Delhi (2001) Mahatma Gandhi International University (2001), IHC Habitat Centre (2001)
Britain
Cheltenham Literature Festival, Swindon Poetry Festival, Bristol Poetry Festival, The Pegasus theatre, Windsor Arts theatre, Contact Theatre Manchester, APNA arts festival, Nottingham. Live theatre, Newcastle, Project One on One, Lancashire, Wolverhampton University, Swansea University –British Council literature conferences
March 2002 Breathing Freely, commissioned short, at Soho Theatre, London, presented by Kali Theatre Co.
2001 Relatively Sane (1) Waterman’s Theatre, London with Kali Theatre company
1998 One day my prince will come, Oval House Theatre, London
March 1997 Relatively Sane, 4 hander, read at Oval House Theatre, London as part of Kali Theatre’s play festival. Monologue version staged at Waterman’s Arts Theatre, West London as part of Southall Black Sisters 10th anniversary Festival Celebrations.
Feb 2004 Protect me from what I want Wrote and directed short piece for 4 actors, performed at Young Vic Theatre, London
Sept 1998 Relatively Sane – (monologue), with video, commissioned for Mental Health Conference at the Brix Theatre, Brixton, London
July 2000 Gibbering into the Mirror (2) Wrote, performed, directed one woman show. Camden Peoples Theatre, London
May 2000 Gibbering into the Mirror, directed devised movement (2 dancers), with video, Gilmore Halls, Glasgow
Nov 1997 The Story of the Moon, wrote, performed, Pegasus Theatre, Oxford, and Battersea Arts Centre, London
Sept 1996 Tracing the Lines of Our Palms – collaboration performance. Southwark Cathedral, London.
Oct 1995 Why are you so angry? Solo performance with sound, performed at the Oval House theatre, London
Oct 1994 Head-heart affairs, wrote and directed spoken word performance, with dancers and Improvisatory Music Collective musician, East Oxford Community Centre, Oxford, England
BROADCASTS
Nov 2007 The Verb, BBC Radio 3, Writing commission and live broadcast at the BBC Bush House Radio Theatre.
Feb 2003 The Verb, BBC Radio 3, Writing Commission and reading
Dec 2004 BBC 2 television – Performance Poetry feature, DNAsia.
1997 Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, interview with 3 other co-performers about performances
REVIEWS
A Tribute to Luther King – Oxford Mail newspaper, 20.1.95, poetry performance. Pegasus Theatre, Oxford.
Various national and local press reviews, interviews and articles for poetry performances including: Literally Speaking Cheltenham Literature Festival News (13.10.2003), Happily Single Author. Hindustan Times. Delhi, 29/10/01, (national daily, Tracing the lines of Parm, Asian Eye 13.3.97 (national weekly), Rebel Yell, Upfront (monthly) Poetry Performance review of Barbican Theatre (Oct 96), Times Educational Supplement (14.2.2003), for arts education anti-racist work in Essex schools
Theatre research commission – The Junction Theatre, Cambridge, 1996.
Arts Council of England Award, London, Drama department – for production of Jibbering into the Mirror (1999)
Ledwig-Rahoult International Writing Fellowship, Switzerland, (1999)
Hawthornden Castle International Writing Fellowship, Scotland, (2000)
Arts Council of England, Literature Department, Writing residency at Royal Observatory Greenwich (2003)
Arts Council of England training grant – attendance at SITI theatre workshop, Los Angeles (2004)
Arts Council of England, Literature Department, research grant, for Inside the Fourth Dimension (2005)
Arts Council of England, travel grant to New York, poetry performances (2005)
Fenton Arts Trust award, for exhibition of Inside the Fourth Dimension, (2005)
Arts Council of England, Visual Arts Department, grant for video art piece, Desire, (2006)
SONY PSP commission for video art piece, Desire, London (2006)
1997 BBC South, Local radio writing residency (included writing workshops and performances)
1999 Hawthornden Writing Fellowship, residential, Edinburgh, Scotland
2000 Ledwig-Rahoult Writing Fellowship, residential, Lausanne, Switzerland
2003 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, supported by London Arts Council
Trans Halle Europe, European Theatre Conference Copenhagen, Denmark
Paper and presentation on the relationship between poetry and mixed media theatre performances 1996
Writers looking East London – presentation at 2-day conference, Roti Writers 1995
Whose theatre is it anyway? Panel Member: Politics of performance, Wolverhampton University 2004
Form and content paper on artistic practice presented at International Habitat Centre, Delhi 2001
What is your place? Presentation at Writers conference at London College, London 2007
Talking in Tongues Poetry in Translation– fundraised for conference and London-wide readings in association with the Multicultural Arts Consortium, based at Toynbee Studios, Whitechapel, East London
The importance of Poetry -Paper presented at ACE, London Conference, Greenwich 2004
