Ailsa Holland – Page 4 – poet ~ publisher ~ activist

Twenty Four Miles Up

In 2017 I was fortunate enough to receive a grant from Arts Council England to cover mentoring sessions with the fabulous Mimi

In 2017 I got a commission from Barnaby Festival to write Macclesfield folk songs with the late great folk musician Paul Sarti

On 20 January 2017 Jane Munro and I organised a Macclesfield event to participate in ‘Bridges Not Walls’, a campaign showi

In November 2016, Jimmy Cauty’s ADP Riot Tour came to Macclesfield. The ‘Aftermath Dislocation Principle’ was a post-rio

For Barnaby 2016 I also worked on ‘Lost Spaces’, an exhibition with artists from the twentysevenb studio. My words were on

I worked with Jane Munro for Barnaby 2016 to create a Crimplene Heritage Museum — a fond counterpart/ complement to the town

My second project as Artist-in-Residence for Macclesfield’s Barnaby Festival 2016 was Backwallgate Books, a temporary commun

In 2016 I was Barnaby Festival’s first Artist-in-Residence. One of my projects was Hills Up Streets, twelve poems spray pain

The second publication from Moormaid Press was Nell Farrell’s Mermaids and Other Devices, in March 2015. We had two launches

“A beautifully written and delivered piece. A paean to the town. Simplicity of presentation driving funny and intense writin

In May 2014 I was thrilled and bewildered to win second prize in the Open Category of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Med

I was Poet in Residence at Tegg’s Nose Country Park, Macclesfield, for the whole of 2014, writing a poem each month which wa