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 Lepchani, Lucy
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 Lyons, Philip


Lepchani, Lucy

Website: http://www.lucylepchani.co.uk http://www.myspace.com/lucylepchanipoems
Email: [email protected]

   Lucy Lepchani is a poetry activist.
Primarily a performance poet, she also writes poetry and fiction for publication, organizes poetry events, collaborates with other artists to exhibit poetry in visual media, and occasionally runs poetry/creative-writing/drama workshops in schools and with community groups.
Performing mostly in her Devon locality at open-mike events, she has also appeared in the line-up at the Glastonbury Festival �Poetry & Words� tent; Torbay Poetry Festival; Ways With Words Literary Festival at Dartington; at various cabaret and other events; and at several venues in rural Dartmoor with �Moor Poets�, a poetry training and promotion organization, with whom she is a committee member.
Her poem �The Ballad of Chelsea Flower Show� won first prize for that event�s poetry competition in 2005; her short story �The Monarch� won second prize in the biennial Asham Literary Awards 2004/5; other work has also been shortlisted in several literary competitions.
She is also currently co-devising with poet Mim Darlington as �The Honey Tongues� poetry duo, as well as working on independent projects. Her CD chapbook �The Wisdom of Bees�, funded by the Arts Council England, is due to be released at the end of October 2007.
Banner quotations taken from Pickings And Cuttings, a long running column of poetry quotations by Dennis
O�Driscoll in the literary journal Poetry Ireland Review, edited by Tony Curtis and published under the title As The
Poet Said, by Poetry Ireland in 1997.
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