Hello
‘irreverent, heart-wrenching, rallying‘ (Annie Rutherford, The Skinny)
Welcome and bienvenue to the website of poet, performer, event curator, and workshop facilitator Rachel McCrum. Her first collection ‘The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate//Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales’ was published in a bilingual (English-French) edition with Canadian press Mémoire d’encrier in 2020. She is currently editor of Font magazine.
Originally from Northern Ireland, formerly of Edinburgh, Scotland (inaugural BBC Scotland Poet in Residence; Rally & Broad; Stewed Rhubarb Press), she has been based in Montréal, Québec, since 2017.
For more information…
About: for downloadable biographies (English et en français) and photographs.
Workshops: for more information on workshops, including approach and experience.
Poems & Performances: for links to writing, filmpoems, performances and audio.
Projects: for information on past performances, projects, commissions.
Writings & Publications: for links to books, publications, and reviews.
Contact: to contact Rachel.















