Ryan Ormonde is a living poet.

Projects

'Public Figure' (2021) Short film collaboration with artist Mădălina Zaharia ('He hides / what it again? / The golden goose / The singing harp...').

Appearances

Fourteen Poems: 'Movement (against Section 28)' (December '24) Poem for issue 15 of UK-based queer poetry series Fourteen Poems. ('At the market in Clapham, they cut up...')

PERVERSE: 'Drag Lady Sonnets: 129' (November '24) Poem for issue 8 of PERVERSE, a newsletter-based poetry magazine ('Th'expense of spirit / spounting pervy thought in verse...')

PERVERSE: 'Sugababes Paradox' (November '23) Poem for issue 7 of PERVERSE, a newsletter-based poetry magazine ('Sugababes is a vocal trio...'). Performed the poem at the inaugural PERVERSE poetry evening at the Wheatsheaf, London on the 11th of December '23.

Gutter: 'Generation' (August '23) Poem for issue 28 of leading Scottish print literary magazine Gutter. ('The earth could be a ball of dried glue but we invented irony...'). Interviewed on their website.

SPAM Plaza: 'Hyperpastoral' (May '23) Film version of poem originally published in inaugural issue of SPAM online zine, for SPAM Plaza ('As if you could find a lover / Reclining on a river bank...').

The Rialto: 'Vacation' and 'The Harmless Copy in Feverish Repetition' (July, '22) Two poems for issue 98 of long-standing print poetry magazine The Rialto. ('The arrogance of nice writerly men abusing love...').

Magma Poetry: 'Company of Bluewater' (November '20) Poem-film collaboration with poet Karenjit Sandhu, for online extension to Magma 78: Collaborations ('We sign up for L'Occitane. / We anoint our hands in almond...').

SPAM: 'Hyperpastoral' (November '20) Poem for inaugural issue of SPAM online zine ('As if you could find a lover / Reclining on a river bank...').

Ryan Ormonde can be contacted via email and is @ryanopoet on Instagram.