Josie Alford is a Bristol-based poet and freelance creative. Her stage presence is sequinned, pop culture referencing, infectious, & welcoming. Once seen, never forgotten, her work ranges from the subtlety of dealing with loss to analysing the nuanced discography of the Spice Girls. She also makes YouTube videos on all things poetry covering subjects from writing poetry to getting your collection published. Her debut poetry collection, Faulty Manufacturing is due out in March 2023 with Verve Poetry Press.
I’ve had poems published in Ink, Sweat and Tears, Obsessed with Pipework, Stand Magazine, Flint the MA Creative Writing Anthology, and The Result Is What You See Today: Poems About Running – The Poetry Business Anthology.
I’ve had feature sets at the following events and Festivals: Raise The Bar, Sprout Spoken, Sofar Sounds Cambridge, Tonic, Milk Poetry, Worcester Speakeasy, Stirchley Speaks, Hammer and Tongue, Sharp Teeth, To Be Frank, Poetry+, Rhyme and Reason, That’s What She Said, Blah Blah Blah, Womad, Bristol Harbour Fest, Valley Fest and Nozstock.
“Josie Alford is one of the new wave of spoken word performers; sassy, intelligent young women who knock the gatekeepers of ‘proper poetry’ off their dusty pedestals.”
-Lucy English