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Sandra Alland
Sandra Alland is a Glasgow-based Scottish-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary artist, small press publisher, performer, filmmaker and curator. Alland's work focuses on social justice, language, humour, and experimental forms.
Sandra Alland began publishing and performing their work in Toronto in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, they were part of the performance poetry band Stumblin' Tongues, with Bermudian poet Andra Simons and musicians Garth and Grant Kien. Alland worked extensively in Toronto's theatre, literary and visual art communities until they relocated to Scotland in 2007.
Alland has published three collections of poetry: Proof of a Tongue (McGilligan Books, 2004), Blissful Times (BookThug, 2007). They have also published two chapbook of their short stories, Here's to Wang (Forest Publications) and Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real (Stuart Ross's Proper Tales Press). Their poetry chapbook Naturally Speaking, a meditation on disability poetics and gender, was published in 2012 by Toronto's espresso and was joint winner of the 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award.
In a four-star performance review in December 2007, Edinburgh's The Skinny said: "(In) Sandra Alland's brilliant Beckett cut-ups...the images come so fast you sometimes feel like a Slinky falling down the stairs, yet the emotion and intention are clear, moving, and often funny." In spring 2009, Glasgow's Lock Up Your Daughters magazine said: "Reminiscent of Miranda July and complemented by a deadpan delivery, Alland's words are at once both drolly funny and sweetly strange."
In 2017 co-edited Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press). Alland's writing has been published internationally in anthologies including Protest: Stories of Resistance (Comma Press), Thought X: Fictions and Hypotheticals (Comma Press), The Mirror in the Mirror (Comma Press), The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto (Coach House Books), radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett (blewointment), Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts (Arsenal Pulp Press), My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems for George W. Bush (Dwarf Puppets on Parade), Can't Lit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine, and Poems For Pussy Riot (PEN International). Alland's poems and short stories can be found in such publications as This Magazine, Broken Pencil, dig, Cosmonauts Avenue, subTerrain and Gutter. In 2012, Alland edited a feature on Scottish poetry for Jacket2.
Besides text, Alland works in multimedia, film, performance poetry and sound poetry. They currently collaborates with the Scottish interdisciplinary group They They Theys, who received 5 stars from Scotland's The Skinny in March 2014. From 2007 to 2012 Alland collaborated with the poetry-music-video fusion group Zorras. In autumn 2009, Scotland's ultimatemetal.com said of their work: "A very unique mix of poetry, music, stories and just plain weird. The poetry was sharp and funny, the placement effective, the visuals fitting; a rather unforgettable experience." Alland is featured in Andrea Brady's Archive of the Now (Queen Mary).
In the UK, Alland has performed at such places as The Roundhouse, Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Museum of London, Soho Theatre, The Oxford Playhouse, Aye Write!, The Arches, The Forest and Unity Theatre, Liverpool. In Canada, they have featured at series including Impossible Words, AvantGarden, Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts, Contact Photography Festival, the Ottawa International Writers' Festival, LabCab Festival (Factory Theatre), Bi+ Arts Festival and Hillside Festival.
Alland's visual art and videos were on display at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art and mac (Birmingham), during 2009–10 and 2011 respectively. Along with Ajamu X, Alland was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Glasgow's Trongate 103 in 2009.
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Sandra Alland
Sandra Alland is a Glasgow-based Scottish-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary artist, small press publisher, performer, filmmaker and curator. Alland's work focuses on social justice, language, humour, and experimental forms.
Sandra Alland began publishing and performing their work in Toronto in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, they were part of the performance poetry band Stumblin' Tongues, with Bermudian poet Andra Simons and musicians Garth and Grant Kien. Alland worked extensively in Toronto's theatre, literary and visual art communities until they relocated to Scotland in 2007.
Alland has published three collections of poetry: Proof of a Tongue (McGilligan Books, 2004), Blissful Times (BookThug, 2007). They have also published two chapbook of their short stories, Here's to Wang (Forest Publications) and Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real (Stuart Ross's Proper Tales Press). Their poetry chapbook Naturally Speaking, a meditation on disability poetics and gender, was published in 2012 by Toronto's espresso and was joint winner of the 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award.
In a four-star performance review in December 2007, Edinburgh's The Skinny said: "(In) Sandra Alland's brilliant Beckett cut-ups...the images come so fast you sometimes feel like a Slinky falling down the stairs, yet the emotion and intention are clear, moving, and often funny." In spring 2009, Glasgow's Lock Up Your Daughters magazine said: "Reminiscent of Miranda July and complemented by a deadpan delivery, Alland's words are at once both drolly funny and sweetly strange."
In 2017 co-edited Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press). Alland's writing has been published internationally in anthologies including Protest: Stories of Resistance (Comma Press), Thought X: Fictions and Hypotheticals (Comma Press), The Mirror in the Mirror (Comma Press), The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto (Coach House Books), radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett (blewointment), Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts (Arsenal Pulp Press), My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems for George W. Bush (Dwarf Puppets on Parade), Can't Lit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine, and Poems For Pussy Riot (PEN International). Alland's poems and short stories can be found in such publications as This Magazine, Broken Pencil, dig, Cosmonauts Avenue, subTerrain and Gutter. In 2012, Alland edited a feature on Scottish poetry for Jacket2.
Besides text, Alland works in multimedia, film, performance poetry and sound poetry. They currently collaborates with the Scottish interdisciplinary group They They Theys, who received 5 stars from Scotland's The Skinny in March 2014. From 2007 to 2012 Alland collaborated with the poetry-music-video fusion group Zorras. In autumn 2009, Scotland's ultimatemetal.com said of their work: "A very unique mix of poetry, music, stories and just plain weird. The poetry was sharp and funny, the placement effective, the visuals fitting; a rather unforgettable experience." Alland is featured in Andrea Brady's Archive of the Now (Queen Mary).
In the UK, Alland has performed at such places as The Roundhouse, Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Museum of London, Soho Theatre, The Oxford Playhouse, Aye Write!, The Arches, The Forest and Unity Theatre, Liverpool. In Canada, they have featured at series including Impossible Words, AvantGarden, Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts, Contact Photography Festival, the Ottawa International Writers' Festival, LabCab Festival (Factory Theatre), Bi+ Arts Festival and Hillside Festival.
Alland's visual art and videos were on display at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art and mac (Birmingham), during 2009–10 and 2011 respectively. Along with Ajamu X, Alland was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Glasgow's Trongate 103 in 2009.