“Sophie Dumont mastered the luminous narrative-as-lyric, deeply personal in tone and founded in the sort of articulation which ensured it travelled way beyond itself to make its wider grasp.”
Publications
Read my latest commission from Quay Words
‘Index of Exeter Quay/From the blue door, I beckon’ commissioned by Quay Words, Literature Works as summer 2022 writer-in-residence
‘To Kayak’ published in Propel Magazine, 2023
‘Notes address to the person who received my ex’s heart’ published in Magma 83 and was awarded 3rd place in Magma Poetry Competition 2022
‘Ghost Grandad’ published in Magma 83
‘The summer I spoke in quizzes’ published in Magma 83
‘Sculling’ published in The Rialto 96
‘We Keep our Chlamydia in a Bell Jar’ was published by Banshee, February 2022
‘Notes on Hung Road’ won Best Single Poem in the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize 2021 and was published in Horses of a different colour
‘Typographer in the Basement’ was highly commended for the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize 2021 and was published in Horses of a different colour
‘Three-Second Storm’ published in Neon 53
‘On Pigeons’ published in Neon 53 and put nominated by Neon for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem
‘Trevose Head Lighthouse’ published in The Great Margin. Watch the poetry film below.
‘Adolescence’ published in The Interpreter’s House
‘December Hangs Above Me to the Left’ won the Hammer & Tongue monthly poetry slam, Bristol.
Curated by Rainmaker in summer 2021, Swells is a 12-minute poetry soundscape consisting of 5 artists who were commissioned to write about the experience of their creative practice in lockdown. Swells was published in Ink, Sweat & Tears. My poem ‘In This Year’ can be heard 3.13 minutes in. Read the Swells transcript.
‘Bus for the Blues’ recorded at The Jam Jar, Bristol.
I am a member of Bristol-based writing group, HOURS. As part of Lyra Festival 2021, HOURS released 4 poetry shots on SoundCloud. Listen to me read four of my poems here. Read my poems here.
A 2020 poetry film featuring my voice reading my poem ‘Trevose Head Lighthouse’. The video was made as part of The Great Margin by videographers Tracy Harris and Tom Gatley. A written version of the poem can be found here.
“Wrapping Horts Bristol in a warm cloud of linguistic magic, Sophie cast a wonder-spell on each mind and heart who heard her words. We enjoyed a truly special set with laughter, thought-provoking angles and a rare, raw honesty that ingratiated our happy hub to this bubbling soul.”
Top right: Paul Blakemore Photography. Top left: Tom Dodd Photography. Four bottom images: Chris Vox.