Zoë McWhinney (GBR) is among the international top tier of Visual Vernacular artists. VV is an autonomous art form through which deaf performers can tell expressively without spoken or written words. Both the hands and the entire body serve as the medium. For poetry lovers, this is a rare opportunity to experience word art in a completely new way and to expand your sense of what poetry can be.​

How you might know this poet

• Shortlisted for British Sign Language Poet Laureate (2023–2024 and 2025–2026).​
• Co-adapted Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic for the Royal Court Theatre.​
• Nominated for the Forward Prize (2025) for The Portrait and The Skylight, one of the United Kingdom’s most important poetry prizes.​