WHO WE ARE
off-page came together as a partnership through our love for experimental poetic forms in our writing and art communities. Each year we bring together a new group of writers and artists following an open call. They are the driving force behind our conversations .We're inspired by Edwin Morgan, Brazil's poesia concreta, the film poems of Margaret Tait and Sarah Forrest, Maud Sulter's storytelling, Alec Finlay, and each other.
cd boyland | co-founder
CD is a [d]eaf poet who lives in Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, Scotland. His first, full collection, Mephistopheles was published by Blue Diode in 2023. His pamphlets are User Stories (Stewed Rhubarb, 2020); Vessel (Red Squirrel, 2022); SMC_ (Steel Incisors, also 2022) and Ptchdk_ (Trickhouse Press, 2023). Other work appeared in magazines and anthologies including 3AM Magazine, Beir Bua, Gutter, The Interpreter’s House, The North and New Writing Scotland. He has exhibited most recently at off-page 24 in Glasgow.
julie laing | co-founder
Julie Laing (she/her) is a writer and artist from Glasgow. Her first poetry collection, some possible endings & beginnings, was published in 2026 with Art Riot Press and her debut pamphlet, the edge of rhizome, came out with Red Squirrel Press in 2025. She has been widely published and won the 2023 William Bonar Poetry Prize and The Wigtown Poetry Prize 2022. Her photography solo show was held at Edinburgh’s Agitate Gallery in 2024 and other visual art has been exhibited in group shows including The Scottish Landscape Awards and Street Level Open. Julie has delivered sessions and readings at StAnza International Poetry Festival, Push the Boat Out and Edinburgh Photographic Society and co-hosts off-page.
leo plumb | collaborator
Leo is an artist working in Glasgow. His practice encompasses drawing, photography and sculpture. In cross-media projects he draws on the economics of labour and urban environments with a strong interest in places associated with recreation or work. A student of Glasgow School of Art, Leeds Metropolitan University and Estonian Academy of Arts, Leo helped found Mexico Project Space, a curatorial group in Leeds from 2011-2014. This project responded to the artists-led movement which followed the 2008 economic crash. Recent projects include: Curious Flat Pipes, Perth; Intermittent residencies at The Briggait; off-page 24.
