Bring this work into the room.

Poetry lands differently out loud. I perform No Offence Detected, and I speak to parents, educators, clinicians, and conferences about disclosure, dissociation, grooming, and the systems that look away.

Two forms of standing, held at once.

I won’t separate the clinical from the lived. That is what makes the room go quiet, and what makes it act.

Performance poetry sets

Conference keynotes

Panels & Q&A

Parent & community education

Professional & trauma aware training

Poems from No Offence Detected.

Accountability is not violence.
Ignorance is what abuse depends on.
So does familiarity.

Know their name. Not their reassurances. Their record.

From 'Know Their Name'

I read in a low voice and the words build walls around us, a fortress the institutions do not have the key to.

This is the only jurisdiction I have won.

From 'Sanctuary'

Two people. One star.
Enough.

From 'Star Light'

Twenty-four poems across seven movements. The collection performed at the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival poetry slam.

From $25

The poems, performed.

Hearing the work is the fastest way to know whether it belongs in your room.

Know Their Name

Sanctuary

Ubud Festival set

820+

Charges laid across four recent Australian childcare cases.

Detected by the centres at the time the offending occurred: zero.

‘That emotion. I felt that. If you ever stop writing poetry, I’ll stop talking to you.’

Neal Hall, award-winning human rights poet, after Hayley performed at the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival

The case, in one line.

The systems designed to detect harm did not. That is not an argument against hope. It is the argument for it, carried by the people who refuse to look away. That is what a performance is for.

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Engagement fees vary by audience and scope. Reduced and pro bono rates for advocacy and not for profit settings.