WHAT I'VE DONE

Publications

and Projects

Pamphlets and Books

Pretending the Weather (2011) Long Face Press

The Gathering (2012) Long Face Press

Mending the Ordinary (2014) Fair Acre Press

I Buy A New Washer (and Other Moderate Acts of Independence) (2020) Mark Time Books

GREAT MASTER / small boy (2021) Fair Acre Press

FESTIVAL IN A BOOK - a celebration of Wenlock Poetry Festival - editor (2023) 904 Press

Magazines

Selected poet for Magma 71 - The Film Issue

My poems have appeared in Mslexia; Magma; PN Review; The Frogmore Papers; Ink, Sweat and Tears; And Other Poems; Poetry Wales; The North; Standpoint; Bare Fiction; Under the Radar; The Emergency Poet: an Anti-Stress Anthology; Off The Shelf: A Celebration Of Bookshops In Verse; Wenlock Poetry Festival Anthologies 2013, 2015 and 2016 and on Writers' Hub in the #MeToo Anthology edited by Deborah Alma (2018), The WOLF Competition anthology 2019 and The Result Is What You See Today - Poems About Running.

Blog

My blog, I Buy A New Washer, can be found here: http://someonesmumsays.blogspot.co.uk/

Blog Book - I Buy A New Washer (and Other Moderate Acts of Independence) published December 2020 by Mark Time. Available from liz.lefroy@btinternet.com £10

Projects

Fair Acre Press' 2015-6 'Malign Species' Project. I discuss writing and inspiration with Nadia Kingsley here:

http://fairacrepress.co.uk/podcast-on-liz-lefroy/

ENCOUNTERS Artists and Poets project located at the VAN gallery in Shrewsbury, March 2018 and 2019.

COLLABORATE / CYDWEITHIO 2023 - Artists and Poets project - exhibition at the Workhouse, Llanfyllin

Prose

"What is Here Now? A Reading of St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury"

Lefroy, L. (2018) "I'm afraid I don't know: Poetry and Social Work", Writing in Education no. 75, Summer 2018 pp14-19

Performance

Readings

Ludlow Festival Fringe; Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Ludlow libraries; Shrewsbury Poetry; Bilston Voices; Keele University; The Red Parrot, Presteigne; Glyndwr University; Cheltenham Festival; Mid-Wales Art Centre; Carnival of Words, Wrexham; Cinnamon Press 10th anniversary celebrations; Much Wenlock Poetry Festivals; Welshpool Poetry Festival; 108 Art Gallery, Harrogate; Drayton ArtsFest; Poetry in Presteigne; Hackney - Bookartshop; Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery; Shrewsbury Festival of Literature; Satellite of Love, Bristol; The Poetry Lounge, Ludlow; Shrewsbury Poetry; Verbatim, Montgomery; Poets Café, Reading; Poetry at Burton, Brewhouse Arts Centre; Poetry Wales launch, Gladstone's Library; Coleshill Library; Brushford Barton, Devon (Plough Arts); Poetry Pharmacy; Whitchurch Poetry; Agitation Hill (online) Australia; Poetry Breakfast, Much Wenlock. Oct / Nov 2023 Australia Tour - Perth Poetry Club, WA; Agitation Hill, Castlemaine, VIC; Cherry Poets, Melbourne, VIC; Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Launceston, TAS.

Particular Highlights

2014 Theatre Severn with Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke
2015 with Kathleen Jamie at Wenlock Poetry Festival (WPF)
2016 with Andrew McMillan and Don Paterson at WPF
2016 Shore to Shore tour with Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker and Jackie Kay. Read about my experience here: http://someonesmumsays.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/i-carry-placard.html?spref=fb
2017 with Gillian Clarke at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
2017 with Frieda Hughes at Shrewsbury Festival of Literature
2018 launch of Magma 71, The Film Issue, London
2020 launch of I Buy A New Washer (Zoom event)
2021 launch of GREAT MASTER / small boy (Zoom event) You can watch the event on YouTube by clicking here
2021 Brushford Barton with Carol Caffrey
2022 'The Eternal Reciprocity of Tears', with Carol Caffrey at Shrewsbury Abbey
2023 - accepted for the Room 204 writers scheme
2023 at the Poetry Pharmacy with Choman Hardi and Clare Shaw
2023 Launch events for 'Festival in a Book - a celebration of Wenlock Poetry Festival' online and in Much Wenlock
2023 Readings in Australia - Perth, Castlemaine, Melbourne, Launceston

Collaboration

The Gathering was set to music by Brian Evans for the St Chad's Music Festival, Shrewsbury, May 2012
With photographer Alex Ramsay for his series of photographs, Os, featured at the Presteigne Festival 2014.
The Seven Rages of Woman at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2013 and 2015, and Coventry and Shrewsbury, with Lucy Aphramor and Amy Godfrey. Together we formed Threesome.
From 2013-2019 I appeared on Ryan Kennedy's Saturday morning show on BBC Radio Shropshire to present Poetry Round-up.
Still Life - Reflections on Love and Loss, with Carol Caffrey
Animation with Darren Mason https://youtu.be/Rf57eoJZpLo