About Jehane Markham
A painterly poet who works with images, her poetry is about her life and the people in it. Her writing is spare, acute and intense. Jehane has been reading her work in small venues for many years. Audiences of all ages are attracted to her work because she communicates a sense of empathy.
Jehane Markham has worked with musicians since she began writing for the theatre when she worked with Steeleye Span at the Edinburgh Festival in 1972.
She collaborated with jazz pianist and composer, Pete Letanka, to create Hermes a jazz opera, based on the birth of the Greek messenger god. (Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2006).
In 2009 she was commissioned by the ROH to write an opera for adults and children with composer Orlando Gough, as an outreach educational performance piece: On the Rim of the World was performed at Glyndebourne, The Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera in 2009/10 and the Citizens Theatre/ Scottish Opera in 2011.
The Jehane Markham Trio (JMT) was a natural progression. Working closely with jazz pianist Robin Phillips and double bass player, Jonny Gee, Jehane has found a way to communicate her dark and witty work to a wider audience. The trio have written two longer performance pieces as well as adding music to short poems.
She has led workshops in primary schools and lectured on the connection between poetry and film at Beaconsfield Film School.
In 2005 she ran a workshop: Drawing My Story, with artist, Sally Lawford, as part of the Salthouse Festival. She was guest lecturer on the Creative Writing Course at The Metropolitan University in North London 2011. She divides her time between London and Norfolk, working in both.
Jehane Markham
Jehane Markham is a true poet...
her poems glow like impressionist paintings.
Adrian Mitchell
Love wells up out of Jehane Markham's
work... it made me cry.
Gillian Allnutt
events
2012 readings
Jehane Markham Trio
Saturday 8 July 2012, 7.30pm
Church of St. Margaret
Holt Road
Cley next the Sea
Norfolk R25 7TT
Tickets £8 on the door or
from www.salthouseart.co.uk
Poetry next-the-Sea
Jehane Markham and John Siddique
Friday 11 May 2012, 7.30pm
The Maltings
Staithe Street
Wells-next-the-Sea
Norfolk NR23 1AU
Tickets: £10; Friends: £8
01328 738 243
www.poetry-next-the-sea.com
Poet's Cafe
Friday 19 October 2012,
8.00pm for 8.30pm
South Street Arts Centre
South Street
Reading RG1 4QU
Tickets £5.25 or £4.25
