WHO WE ARE
off-page came together as a partnership through our love and respect for experimental poetic forms in our writing and art communities. Each year we bring together a new group of writers and artists following an open call. They are the driving force behind our conversations .We're inspired by Edwin Morgan, Brazil's poesia concreta, the film poems of Margaret Tait and Sarah Forrest, Maud Sulter's storytelling, Alec Finlay, and each other.
cd boyland | co-founder
CD is a [d]eaf poet who lives in Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, Scotland. His first, full collection, Mephistopheles was published by Blue Diode in 2023. His pamphlets are User Stories (Stewed Rhubarb, 2020); Vessel (Red Squirrel, 2022); SMC_ (Steel Incisors, also 2022) and Ptchdk_ (Trickhouse Press, 2023). Other work appeared in magazines and anthologies including 3AM Magazine, Beir Bua, Gutter, The Interpreter’s House, The North and New Writing Scotland. He has exhibited most recently at off-page 24 in Glasgow.
julie laing | co-founder
Julie is a Glasgow-based writer and artist. She is the winner of the 2023 William Bonar Poetry Prize and her debut pamphlet, the edge of rhizome, is forthcoming with Red Squirrel Press. She won The Wigtown Poetry Prize 2022 and livestream, hope street was selected as one of the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems 2022. Her work has appeared in New Writing Scotland, Gutter, Studies in Photography, SPAM Plaza and elsewhere. Her visual art has been exhibited most recently at her solo show, night frequencies (Agitate Gallery 2024), off-page 24 and The Scottish Landscape Awards.
leo plumb | collaborator
Leo is an artist working in Glasgow. His practice encompasses drawing, photography and sculpture. In cross-media projects he draws on the economics of labour and urban environments with a strong interest in places associated with recreation or work. A student of Glasgow School of Art, Leeds Metropolitan University and Estonian Academy of Arts, Leo helped found Mexico Project Space, a curatorial group in Leeds from 2011-2014. This project responded to the artists-led movement which followed the 2008 economic crash. Recent projects include: Curious Flat Pipes, Perth; Intermittent residencies at The Briggait; off-page 24.
