Rose’s innovative and inspirational debut collection contains the unabridged scripts of her three acclaimed poetry theatre shows: The Geography of Me, How to Starve an Artist and The Empathy Experiment. In The Geography of Me, Rose journeys through foreign and familiar lands, recounting hilarity and heartbreak, and disarming even the most reluctant of armchair travellers. (Toured London, Winnipeg and the Edinburgh Fringe 2014.) How to Starve an Artist premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 and is a series of poems and stories about creative nourishment and how to feed your own ‘inner artist’. (Runner Up Best Spoken Word Show, Saboteur Awards 2017.) The Empathy Experiment asks if you could you survive for one day without your phone – and if empathy is facing extinction, are smartphones to blame? Rose explores tech addiction and compassion using herself as the text subject … but does her experiment work? (Winner Best Spoken Word Show, Gtr Manchester Fringe Festival 2019.) Rose Condo is a Canadian poet based in Salford, England. With a background in theatre, she has been writing, performing and teaching for over twenty years and was longlisted for the inaugural Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. “A steadying reminder of compassion in a world tipped off its axis.” - Rosie Garland, poet & novelist “Honest, unflinching, charming and deeply human poetry.” - Dominic Berry, Glastonbury Festival poet-in-residence “Work that refuses to accept half-baked assumptions, choosing instead to dig with precision to the roots of the world’s ugliness.” - Geneviève L. Walsh, spoken word artist “Her skill with words is deft and her message a reassuring embrace.” - Alex Slater, poet & writer “A heart-warming collection, full of humanity and hope.” - Rosie Fleeshman, spoken word artist “Dignity and strength underpin explorations of belonging, creativity and connection.” - Ciarán Hodgers, spoken word artist “Wonderful, soothing and soulful. Her poetry is a friend when the world is a storm.” - Louise Fazackerley, poet “Her subtle lyricism cradles you in a warm embrace and then gently but firmly delivers an emotional and thought-provoking gut punch.” - Tina Sederholm, poet & performer