Poetry

Janine performs her poem 'Babyface' in Cambridge in 2016.

Back in 2018, Janine performs ' Unpublished author' in front of a shopload of books. Venue: Berkeley Books, Paris.

"We had a powerful mix of the angry, the poignant, the confessional, and the amazing, as well as the political."

Write Out Loud reviews Sunday's Spoaken Word Lewes, November 2021.

I was delighted to have a chat with some old muckers for the Jamming! podcast, and the episode is now available for your listening pleasure. It also features my poem 'Lighting, Rigged' about being sexually assaulted as a teenager at a gig.

Listen here.

Our public sewage industry
was sold to private bidders
Who don't dispose of putrid waste
but dump it in the rivers

They take responsibility
and flush it down the loo
For building up the affluent
builds effluence up too

The Tories' excremental sale
saw treatment work neglected
As income goes to bonuses
so beaches are infected

Janine's contribution to A Disorder for Everyone's online poetry gig challenging the mainstream narrative on mental health, held on 16 April 2021, featuring the poems Locked Up and Down and Not OK.

Be streetwise, girls, be streetwise
and you won't get false-arrested
Look out for cuffs and meat knives
Be streetwise, girls, be streetwise
and memorise our treatise
on what to do when pestered
Be streetwise, girls, be streetwise
and you won't be false-arrested