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Sue Vickerman – The Naked Poet – Diary of a Literary Life Model
Friday, 10th May @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Writer and literary translator Sue Vickerman introduces the poems and videos of Suki The Life Model, who came into being when Sue took up nude modelling for extra cash. Suki proceeded to take over Sue’s life, performing “her” work – naked – at festivals from Shanghai to Swindon…
Sue developed the Suki character out of her own experiences of modelling, but she rejects further comparisons: Suki is a serially single wannabe poet, pushing fifty, a bit anorexic, intermittently
suicidal, alone yet again and struggling (as ever) to make ends meet. Rivalry has inexorably evolved.
Suki became successful in her own right, with publications to her name, theatrical performances, and a blog (on Art, Life, Love, and Loneliness) at sukithelifemodel.co.uk, where she triggered a feminist discussion of the traditional artist-model relationship whereby artists were mainly male, while models
were their exploited mistresses.
The blog won an international following and accrued over 30,000 hits.
Suki went on to serialise a rather indiscreet autobiography in instalments, which subsequently came out in print as an illustrated trilogy.
The question is, will Sue Vickerman ever get her life back?
Please book for this event directly with the hotel on 01723 514771
