Anne Enith Cooper

London U.K. — nearest ocean:  Northern Atlantic
European Heritage, Older Adult (50 and over)

About the art

A visual poem in the form of an exhibit to an academic research paper into leisure in an imagined dystopian near future in the year 2063. Art as warning to the future we may face if we don't act now.

About the artist

Anne Enith Cooper is a former contributor to Creative Week and The Pavement Magazine and current contributor to On Our Radar, an activist, occasional public speaker and recent writer-in-residence at Cressingham Gardens which led publication of 306: Living Under the Shadow of REGENERATION.

Born upside down, born blue, under a waxing gibbous moon, a little after midnight, six months before the Cuban Missile Crisis, life was bound to have bumps; Anne was diagnosed bipolar 34 years later. She has been described as, “an artist, activist and author” and “the love child of Fox Mulder and Patti Smith, secretly adopted by Leon Lederman.”

In this incarnation, between crashing and burnouts she has created collage, montage, concrete and matter poetry, the collection Touched, workshops and live literature events. Anne is the founder of The Way of Words and has worked on writing projects in the community for 20 years, on and off. Her live events featured; talks, poetry, prose and debate alongside musicians and dj’s with special guests including John Cooper Clarke, Lindsay German and Paddy Hill.

Anne writes about love, war, working class history and the planet; drawing on auto-bio, myth, popular culture and current affairs. A self-confessed dictionary freak, free thinker and dreamer she loves wordplay and playing with form to create audacious and tender work. Her poem-essay 21st Century Guernica was described by the former MP Tony Benn as, “Powerful and deeply moving.”

She is a member of NAWE, Poets for the Planet and the influential writers collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, founded by Forward prize winner Malika Booker and T.S. Eliot prize winner Roger Robinson, her elegiac poem This is A Prayer features in their 2021 anthology Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different. She has performed in London and New York. She says, “I fervently believe another world is possible, I’ve felt her breathe on my face.”