Martin Glynn (born 1957) is a British poet, theatre director, cultural activist,[1] and criminologist.[2] As a poet Glynn is best known for his dub poetry performance.[3]
Life edit
Martin Glynn was born in "a modern slum" in Nottingham, to a white mother and black father of Jamaican heritage.[2][4]
Glynn has written and directed performance works, as well as writing radio and theatre plays. He has also been an Arts Development Consultant, and founded BLAK (UK) (Being Liberated and Knowledgeable), an organization encouraging the arts as a tool for personal transformation.[1]
His poem 'Tranes Blue Madness' is a tribute to John Coltrane. The poem's rhythm is modelled on Coltrane's bassline, with a relentless drive mirroring the persistence of mental depression.[5]
Glynn gained a PhD from Birmingham City University in 2013, applying critical race theory to look at black men's desistance from crime.[6]
In 2018 Glynn co-authored Revealed, a play exploring anger within a family spanning three generations of black men. Revealed premiered at mac in Birmingham in February 2018.[7]
Works edit
Plays edit
- (with Daniel Anderson) Revealed, 2018.
Non-fiction edit
- Black men, invisibility and crime: towards a critical race theory of desistance, 2013
- Speaking data and telling stories: data verbalization for researchers, 2019
References edit
- ^ a b Catherine Ugwu (2002). "Glynn, Martin". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 127–128. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ a b Coco Khan, 'Information isn't just for the elite': the academic turning research into hip-hop, The Guardian, 22 March 2019.
- ^ Beth Dodd, Words of Life and Death: Poetry and Culture in Crisis – Martin Glynn, Sarum College, 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Robert Hamberger talks to Tom Paulin & Martin Glynn". MACE Archive. 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
- ^ Five Birmingham Poets, BBC Birmingham, 29 September 2006. Accessed 6 July 2020.
- ^ Glynn, Black Men's Desistance: The racialisation of crime/criminal justice systems and its impacts on the desistance process, PhD thesis, Birmingham City University, February 2013.
- ^ Hard hitting play encourages black men to explore mental wellbeing, National Survivor User Network. Accessed 6 July 2020.
External links edit
- Martin Glynn at Spoken Word Archive