Liv Torc is a poet, performer, participation expert, and artist. A Radio 4 Slam winner, a former Bard of Exeter, host of The Rainbow Fish Speakeasy and The Hip Yak Poetry Shack, Liv runs the poetry stage at WOMAD, the COP26 project Hot Poets, Banana Poems and the lockdown haiku and photography project Haiflu – as featured on the Today Programme.
She has recently performed at the UN in Paris, TEDxLondonWomen, the Southbank and was featured on BBCR4’s Poetry Please. In 2022 she supported Hollie McNish and Roger McGough and is currently working with the UNFCCC to bring poetry into the climate change fight. Her books include Show Me Life, Banana Poems and The Human Emergency.
