Wires, The: 2012

Jude Cowan Montague is an artist. writer and composer. She is known for her innovative work with international news agency output. This practice developed as a researcher and cataloguer working on the Reuters Television archive. Her debut poetry collection "For the Messengers" (Donut Press, 2011) reimagined Reuters output during 2008. Her album "The Leidenfrost Effect" (Folkwit Records, 2015) was co-composed with Dutch producer Wim Oudijk in response to quirky stories from the Reuters Life! feed. Her second collection of poetry, "The Groodoyals of Terre Rouge" (Dark Windows Press, 2013), included art from her original prints. She was awarded the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers' graduate prize, 2014–2016. In 2013 she founded The News Agents, a radio show experimenting in news and arts, for Resonance 104.4 FM. She produces and presents the weekly show on Saturday afternoons. Praise for "For the Messengers": Jude Cowan Montague “has gone where I've never seen a jobbing journalist tread before. This is news observed with so discerning an eye that marvellous detail emerges within the poetry. Read her book. We are the richer for it.” Jon Snow, Channel 4 News “Unlike the daily news that fades from view, Jude Cowan's images linger in the memory. She creates poetry which finds the humanity amid the horror of our times. Her work is outstanding.” Bill Neely, ITN News/NBC News