Masculinity, The Body and Sexuality with Colin McGuire

Performance poet Colin McGuire presents a spoken word set focused on masculinity, the body and sexuality within a sport setting followed by a Q&A and social.

Colin McGuire

Colin McGuire is a poet and performer from Glasgow, who lives in Edinburgh, who has written and performed relentlessly over the last fifteen years, building a reputation as a dynamic, engaging and sometimes challenging performer and poet.

He is the author of three collections, Riddled with errors (Clydesidepress 2003), Everybody lie down and no one gets hurt (Red Squirrel Press 2013), and his first full collection, As I sit quietly, I begin to smell burning (Red Squirrel Press 2014).

He has performed in countless poetry cabarets and slam performances across Scotland and the U.K., winning the Shore Poets Quiet Slam in 2014, and the Luminate Slam 2015 and he got to the semi-final in the BBC Fringe Slam in 2013. He facilitated the Artcore: Writers Inc Group at Edinburgh Central Library in 2016.

His writing often covers such themes as mindfulness meditation, the exploration of masculinity and sexuality in a Scottish context and more broadly, as well as identity and ill mental health issues; furthermore, he is also interested in technology and its social impact.

He has always had a fascination with sleep and the processes of sleep which make up the body of his first chapbook Everybody lie down and no-one gets hurt.

His performances are always passionate, humorous, with a poetry that is full of colour and surreality.