Inland

About Kay Syrad

Kay Syrad's publications include a collection of poetry Double Edge (Pighog 2012); two novels The Milliner and the Phrenologist (2009 reprinted 2012) Send (2015 both published by Cinnamon) Exchange an art-text collaboration with environmental artist Chris Drury (Little Toller 2015) based on a rural residency and exhibition for the climate change cultural organisation Cape Farewell and the poetry collection Inland (Cinnamon Press). Kay who lives in East Sussex often collaborates with artists: she has worked with the international art collective Sensory Sites and between 2013-2016 was the commissioned writer on Last Station a multi-media arts project exploring the history of the British lightships that used to be stationed around Britain's coasts; here she wrote the libretto for a choral piece featuring an original score by the jazz and world-musician Trevor Watts and her artist's book for the project 1000 tasks: work of the lightship men was bought by the National Maritime Museum for their permanent collection. With the performer Clare Whistler she has contributed work to Art: Language: Location (Cambridge 2013) and Telling Stories II at Sevenoaks Library Art Gallery (2014). Kay also writes reviews and articles for various poetry journals.