Bob Beagrie

Bob Beagrie is a poet, playwright and senior lecturer in creative writing at Teesside University. He has performed at numerous festivals and venues nationally and internationally, As well as collaborating with musicians he has also worked closely with visual artists on public artworks and with theatre company Three Over Eden.

Bob is interested in the shamanic capacity of poetic performance and how it interacts with cross art collaboration, testing the potential of the spoken and written word and its integration with a range of other art forms. This interest led to his involvement with Project Lono; a collaborative collective of musicians and poets experimenting with audio scapes that blend verse, storytelling, song and music with live and recorded sounds.  

Bob’s research interests lie in the capabilities of creative writing to be used as a vehicle for personal, social and community development and cohesion. How it can be employed as a model of learning across a wide range of curriculum areas and how its reflective approach can be used to open up social issues for debate and discussion.

For Sonic Art Week this year Bob will showcase an hour-long performance of live spoken word poetry with accompanying immersive soundscapes created by Bob Beagrie and a collective of musicians that have been working under the title of Project Lono for twelve years. Composer Stewart Forth joins Bob for an alfresco showcase of their sonic explorations along the frontier between poetry and music.