There is a man And he has a wife He loves her with his all She saved him Quelled the loneliness That ate him from within Together they made a home And she grew him babies So he wouldn’t be lonely His family He looks after them But his soul hurts And his heart is […]
This is one of the felt back drops I made for the film of Love: A Stranger Dream. I really like working with felt as a craft material and have been pondering creating some stuffed Shadowing Souls. Shadowing Souls are the little ghost things that lurk in the pictures within my visual poem. I made […]
A petulant sky Dark as a spoiled child told no Boiling water heavy Marring the summer sky Building a prickly heat Hurting the ears and eyes Sledge hammer pressure Blanketing populations In sleeping aggression Thunder head shifts And POW The clouds melt down Sheets of water Drowning the land Choking the air Lightening rents Thunder […]
The bones of The City Walked in his soul The bone of The City Walked in his soul Discordian punk type Illuminated with dark rave light Illuminated with dark rave light The bones of The City Walked in his soul Rapping in the jazz whole The junk of funk He could play Marking out thoughts […]
The first ever Gloucester Poetry Festival is almost upon us – Saturday (21st Oct 2017) sees events starting off with an extra special Food for Thoughts at the Cafe Rene 2-5 pm. This is followed by the Gloucester Waterstones Villanelles on Sunday 2-4 pm complete with Poetry Roulette and me co-hosting! Then on Thursday the […]
Monday night I inflicted my childrens poetry on an audience in the Waterstones Cheltenham as part of the Villanelles series run by The Gloucester Poetry Society. This beautiful photo of the reading was taken by Kurt Schroeder Photography which is a challenge as I can’t really do flash photography and the light levels were poor! […]
This photo is me performing at the 2015 Quiet Compere event on the eve of the Medicine Unboxed conference. Photo taken by Sarah Dixon aka the Quiet Compere!
So we did it 🙂 We got the kickstarter completely funded and now we have a book in production! Above is the front cover and the beauty of this book is just mind blowing but then I would say that I am publishing it! Or rather The WigglyPet’s Press is publishing it 🙂 For those […]
As I write this there is about 60hrs left on the Gloucester Poetry Societies Kickstarter for their first ever poetry book Poetry Without Pretension. It is a beautiful book full of not just poems but art works and write ups on the poets that have helped create it. The visuals are amazing and are part […]
The Gloucester Poetry Society are in their inaugural year – from a little seed idea it has gone from strength to strength. With a growing and inclusive members list, and it has organised the first poetry and spoken word festival that Gloucester has seen, which will be happening at the end of October 2017 🙂 […]