Shaun Hill 🦥
Poet weaving anatomical intelligence and ecological consciousness through writing, ritual, and movement.
“Fresh and visionary writing”
– *Cheltenham Poetry Festival
“A distinctive vision”
– The Irish Times
Shaun Hill (born 1996) is a writer, somatic educator, and working-class survivor of decades of multi-agency failings, living in the British Midlands.He's the author of warm blooded things (Nine Arches Press, 2021) and A Mushroom Wastes Nothing (Substack, 2026).For over ten years, he's been developing approaches to poetry that emerge from the body. Working at the membrane between movement and language, he experiments with embodiment as a form of radical intimacy with our more-than-human world.Through site-responsive writings and ritual, he investigates moments of reciprocal witness, co-creating flows of wild presence that challenge how we relate to public space and each other.
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“Shaun Hill is one of my favourite performers, his poems charged with vulnerability and raw intimacy.” – Liz Berry
Excerpts from the journey:🌱 Recipient of Apples & Snakes | Jerwood Arts: Poetry in Performance Award (2020)🌱 Arts Council England funded research into improvised movement with living systems (2023)🌱 Over 40 poems published in journals like Magma and A&U: America's AIDS Magazine🌱 Commissions for Verve Poetry Festival, Birmingham Literature Fest, Shout, Wasafiri, UK Young Artists, University of Birmingham, and Team London Bridge🌱 Readings across the country at theatres, firesides, and festivals like WOMAD, Shambala, Buddhafield, Wilderness, Queer Spirit, and on BBC Radio 4🌱 Lead artist on various projects, mentoring writers in site-responsive writing and performance🌱 Background in racial and class-based justice as a consultant and funding panellist for Beatfreeks, data collector for Audience Agency, and an assessment facilitator for £750,000 of public money for Coventry City of Culture, challenging unconscious bias, financial injustice, and myths of meritocracy in UK cultural development schemes (2019)🌱 Critical writing for The Poetry Archive.🌱 Somatic educator modelling embodied consent and ceremonial improvisation for queer bodies and radical communities
“When Shaun Hill performs his poetry reads me, it helps me read myself.” – Beth Calverley