Jude Simpson – Poet, wordsmith, performer

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Thank you beta-readers!!

You may know that I’m working on a collection of children’s poems, entitled “A Noise Annoys” (you may have heard me read some of these at gigs). I asked some 7-13 year-olds to help me out by being “beta readers”…

Upcoming gig in Toft!

If you’re free, do come over to Toft (South Cambridgeshire) on Friday 25th November, where I’m doing a full-length gig, featuring a load of new material as well as some old favourites. That new song about your Nan wanting a…

What a lovely thing to say…

“Jude Simpson is funny, sharp, emotional in her work and is a terrific performer, using her face and body with huge effect. She needs to be seen and heard wherever possible.” – Michael Rosen After I shared the stage with…

UCB Ireland interview

Here’s an interview I did for UCB Ireland, talking to the lovely Annemarie Miles about humour, my writing and faith. I really appreciated her perceptiveness about my work, and her excellent interviewing skills.

Extrordinary ordinariness

I loved reading this column about ordinariness, by my friend and fellow poet, Veronica Zundel.  Writing for Woman Alive magazine, she challenges the insidious assumption that to be significant, we need to do or achieve something extraordinary.  Reading this dislodged…

Helping you write your story…

My agent approached me last year with what turned out to be a brilliant piece of work. This wonderful woman, Val Jeal was writing the story of the charity she founded, working with women in Bristol who wanted to exit…