bluey little
makes stuff. then sleeps
About
Bluey is a poet and former theatremaker. She makes work in conversation with (or running from) her long covid. Of late, she has been diving into the relationship between chronic illness, seasonality, & the climate crisis.Bluey has been a Barbican Young Poet since 2023, and is growing her facilitating practice here & beyond, most recently leading a writers salon for CRIPtic Arts & Spread the Word.Mostly, Bluey just likes rubbing words together and seeing what kindles.
Selected Work
Poetry
The Art of Turning Possible / ‘Shin-Shin’
From the Ground to the Birdsong / ‘Archimedes’ Principle’ and ‘when their bones are picked, may a flower no more’
The Selkie / ‘Pomegranate for Beginners’ and ‘Kouridashi’
The Lickety Split / ‘Kentish Town’
Daughterhood / ‘Soufflé Pearl About to be Sawn in Half’
Drama
Traverse Young Writers / Kith
Scottish Youth Theatre / 2020 Stories: The View from Here
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland / Bodice Ripper (work in progress, developed under mentorship of Stef Smith)
Installations & Collaborations
The Death of the Postcard: An Exquisite Corpse at the Barbican CentreConceived and co-coordinated with Taylor Beidler, this ongoing mail art project is inspired by the BBC reporting the death of the postcard in 2025. It sees fifteen poets contribute to a series of durational exquisite corpse poems by sending and receiving anonymous postcards between February and May 2026.The final poems will be discovered and displayed at the Barbican Centre on 20 June 2026.+Vox at the Barbican CentreConceived and co-curated with Nomakhwezi Becker, this 2025 audio trail asked fellow Barbican Young Poets to write site-specific poems designed to be listened to at locations spread across the Barbican Estate. Each stop offers a reflection, a response, a letter from the site itself; something to gently haunt the space, now that our cohort has moved on.The trail remains available to follow and listen to here.+91 sqft at the Barbican CentreA 5-minute solo film installation produced in Spring 2024. It showcased footage of Bluey in the 91sqft north-facing bedroom she rented at the time, in which she had spent the majority of the last two years being bedbound, and from which she had attended her first year of Barbican Young Poets virtually. The film is soundtracked by poems written during this time and asks viewers to consider how we visualise creativity and the conditions poetry is written in.
Praise
"Lovely, delicate, evocative, gothic.”
— Dan Rebellato on Kith"Strikingly original."
— Playwrights' Studio Scotland on Kith
© Bluey Little 2026