Courtney Stoddart

Courtney Stoddart is a poet and performer whose work situates itself within the Bardic lineages. She has been published across multiple anthologies and has performed on stages both nationally and internationally within the last five years. Stoddart reached the finals of BBC Words First competition in 2019, only three months after she began performing. Later that year, she featured in Hannah Lavery’s Lament for Sheku Bayoh at the Lyceum Yheatre, which ran for three consecutive years. Her work mainly focused on understanding colonialism, history and the parallels with present day, sharing her own experiences growing up mixed ethnicity in Scotland. Courtney received Scottish Book Trust’s Ignite Fellowship in 2021. In more recent years, her work has been deeply embedded in the realms of nature, alchemy, myth and magick, exploring the mysteries of the feminine, death, grief, faith and healing.