Huw Lemmey leads an introduction to the research which has informed Ungentle, produced in collaboration with Onyeka Igwe. The film explores the relationship between homosexual men and espionage in twentieth-century Britain, and uses a fictionalised story to think about the knotty relationship between state power and proscribed deviant sexualities. Lemmey will discuss some of these complicated figures, from famous Cambridge Five “traitors” Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess to loyal operatives such as Denis Rake, Noel Coward and Jeremy Wolfenden. He will be joined in-conversation by poet Richard Scott.
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Huw Lemmey is an artist and writer. He has published two novels, Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell (2019) and Chubz: The Demonization of My Working Arse (2015). His reworking of 12th–century abbess Hildegard von Bingen’s Lingua Ignota will be published in 2020. Lemmey writes on digital culture, sexuality and politics for publications including Architectural Review, Icon, Art Monthly, L’Uomo Vogue, The Guardian and The White Review, among others. This new film work has developed directly from a walking tour by Lemmey, commissioned by Studio Voltaire in 2018 as part of the off–site project Rainbow Aphorisms.
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies including Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Swimmers, The Poetry of Sex (Penguin) and Butt Magazine. He has been a winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Jerwood/Arvon Poetry Mentee and a member of the Aldeburgh 8. His pamphlet 'Wound' (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem 'crocodile' won the 2017 Poetry London Competition. Soho (Faber & Faber) is his first book.
