Louise Devismes is a published French poet and illustrator based in Boulogne-sur-mer. She completed a BA in Creative Writing and Media and Communication at Canterbury Christ Church University, and went on to do an MA in Visual Communication. She is an alumni of the Margate Bookie Young Producers Programme at The Margate School.

She performs regularly around the South East, and represented Canterbury at the 2021 UniSlam. Her work is primarily focused on generational trauma, coming of age, and her hometown. Louise has won numerous slams, including Babeslam in Margate and Ramble in Canterbury, where she headlined alongside Tyrone Lewis, and is the 2022 Utterance Grand Slam Champion. She has featured at Ramble, Poetry at Peggys, Utterance, and Babeslam.

She has self-published her debut poetry pamphlet “Phare”, which sold out within its first 48 hours. 

Louise also works as a freelance graphic designer, designing content for several festivals, charities, and theatre companies such as Canterbury Shakespeare Festival, Co-Relate, H2H Sensory Theatre, Sunrose Festival, The Devil Loves You cabaret night, Making Waves Festival. She is a commissioned artist for Thread Poets Society merch company. 

In 2022, Louise began acting, performing in the plays Sir Thomas More & Hades & Persephone: Love’s Fair Chill for the Canterbury Shakespeare Festival, and the video We Can Be Pirates by Nina Telegina and Inkbomb. In 2023, Louise appeared in the webseries Medea, the short film Devil’s Threeway, and We Robbed a Bank by The Sorry Boys. Louise collaborated with Koto Kill on the song Telephone Party.

In November 2022, Louise launched her own successful cabaret night and publishing imprint “Cacofonix”, bringing together poetry, illustration, photography, improv, magic, and music to foster new work across disciplines.

As of 2025, Louise has been shortlisted for the Jack McCarthy Book Prize, has won the Apoetical Poetry Prize, and is freelancing as a book cover artist in France and working on her debut full-length poetry collection.