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Colin Hassard is a poet from Banbridge, Co. Down.
He was Runner-Up in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing in 2018 and shortlisted for the same award in 2021. Colin has been selected as one of Eyewear Publishing's Best British and Irish Poets and shortlisted for the Aurivo North West Words Poetry Competition in 2019.
He is a two-time receipient of Arts Council NI funding and his debut poetry collection, Age of the Microwave Dinner, was published in 2021 by Doire Press.
Spoken Word
As a spoken word artist, Colin has twice been Ulster Poetry Slam Champion, was joint winner of the Cursed Murphy Spoken Word Award in 2020 and is a former winner of poetry slams at the Belfast Book Festival, Culture Night, and Belly Laughs Comedy Festival.
He has supported the likes of John Cooper Clarke, Tony 'Longfella' Walsh and Hollie McNish; performed at major Irish festivals including Electric Picnic, Stendhal and Lingofest; and toured Ireland with his own one-man show Quantum of Sonnets.
Colin has performed his work on Sky One and RTE Radio 1 and has written commissioned poems for BBC radio and television. He was 'Writer-in-Residence' for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival 2015, Poet-in-Residence for all three series of BBC Radio Ulster's Science & Stuff, and has an ongoing creative residency with the Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts, Belfast.
Music
As a musician, Colin performs with Ashley Manners and Seonaid Murray as part of Dirty Words, an ensemble which seeks to combine the energy and passion of spoken-word poetry with melodic alt-rock.
Their first single Wake Up received international airplay and was a 'Track of the Day' on BBC Radio Ulster's Across the Line. In 2024, their song Children Don't Exist was included in the Oh Yeah Music Centre's 'Belfast Music Recommends' Spotify playlist.
The band have performed at the Eastside Arts Festival, C.S. Lewis Festival, the Ulster Museum's Createathon, and at the Imagine Festival where they supported Duke Special. Dirty Words' music is available on all major streaming platforms via the Bad Vibrations label.
We Who Have No Flags
We Who Have No Flags
"An anthem for a new generation" - Belfast Telegraph
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