Jay Bernard (writer)
Jay Bernard (born 1988), FRSL, is a writer, artist, film programmer, and activist from London. They have been a programmer at BFI Flare since 2014,[1] co-editor of Oxford Poetry,[2] and their fiction, non-fiction, and art has been published in many national and international magazines and newspapers.
Accolades
Bernard was named a Foyle Young Poet of the year in 2005.[3]
Bernard's 2016 pamphlet 'The Red and Yellow Nothing', was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award in 2016. The collection tells of the story of Sir Morien, a black knight at Camelot.[4]
Bernard won the Ted Hughes Award for new poetry in 2018 for their multimedia work Surge: Side A, a muiltimedia work which includes the film Something Said, inspired by the 1981 New Cross house fire.[5][6] The novel, 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' by Marlon James, and Twilight City, a film produced by Reece Auguiste for the Black Audio Film Collective in 1989, also provided inspiration for the work.[7]
Bernard was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.[8]
Work
Pamphlets
- Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl (Tall Lighthouse, 2008).
- English Breakfast (Math Paper Press, 2013)
- The Red and Yellow Nothing (Ink, Sweat and Tears Press, 2016), pamphlet, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes award in 2016.[9]
Films
- Something Said, screened at Encounters Festival (2017), CinemAfrica (2018), BFI Flare (2018).[10]
Inclusion in anthologies and collections
Graphic art and poetry by Bernard appears in the following collections:
- City State (2009)
- 'Black Britain: Beyond Definition', Wasafiri, Issue 64, Winter 2010.[11]
- The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt 2011)
- Ten: The New Wave (Bloodaxe 2014)
Residencies
2010 - artist in residence at StAnza Poetry Festival.[12]
2012 - fellow at the National University of Singapore, and curated a graphic arts and poetry exhibition I SEE YOU at the Arts House.[13]
2013 - CityRead resident at the London Metroplitan Archives.[13]
2015 - commissioned with artist Yemisi Blake as part of Transport for London’s Year of the Bus celebrations. Their work '100', which featured one hundred one-line poems, was displayed at North Greenwich Bus Station between January and September 2015.[14]
Personal life
Bernard was born and grew up in Croydon, London.[7] Bernard uses the pronouns 'they/ them'.[7]
References
- ^ "Meet out new BFI Flare programmer". BFI. 17 December 2014.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "New Editor". Oxford Poetry.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Profile: Jay Bernard". The Poetry Society.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Moore, Fiona (19 September 2016). "Review: The Red and Yellow Nothing by Jay Bernard". Sabotage Reviews.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Lea, Richard (28 March 2018). "Jay Bernard wins Ted Hughes Award". The Guardian.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Jay Bernard wins Ted Hughes new poetry award". BBC News. 28 March 2018.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b c Armitstead, Claire (5 April 2018). "Interview: Speaking out: Ted Hughes winner Jay Bernard on exploring the New Cross fire in a one-off performance". The Guardian.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Fellow: Jay Bernard". The Royal Society of Literature.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Bernard, Jay (2017). "How I Did It". Poetry School.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "About Something Said". Something Said Film.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Wasafiri Issue 64". Wasafiri.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Previous Artists in Residence". StAnza International Poetry Festival.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b "Art on the Underground Profile: Jay Bernard".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Art on the Underground Project: 100". Art on the Underground.
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