Cate Blanchett and co created this heart hurting (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/13/cate-blanchett-leads-celebrities-in-un-video-poem-for-refugees?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews#comment-83148764) to highlight the plight of refugees. The poem is hard hitting with a panic inducing rhythm.
This is the arts video I made of my non-lineal visual poem Love: A Stranger Dream. It is 18 minutes long to warn you before you embark on the watching odyssey. I created felt backdrops, learnt to play two new instruments and did a hell of a lot of fuffing and yack shaving to get […]
Video of my political performance piece Paid-Mockracy.
I’m relearning stuff at the moment due to the old whack on the head – so this mainly means I am colouring in but the girls want to learn the recorder and I have a hang up about the recorder… Anyway to cut a long story short there is a Frozen recorder book on it’s […]
Dear Mr Grove This is an amazingly harrowing spoken word / performance poem about our education system here in the UK by Jess Green.
I found this amazing video – I hate labels and this poem is very powerful.
I have a crazy crazy idea and it involves graze boxes, old text books and magazines and glue. I want to make a thick not quiet papier mache not quiet book thing with poems in metallic paint pens. I’ve already cut some pieces to size and hope to have a little go at making these… […]
Thursday the 12th of July last year saw me at the Grain Barge performing geek poetry, throwing knitting and inflicting my sense of humour on people. It took me a while to remember to post it! But it was an epic night and I did pop it up on my personal blog before but thought […]
So I have been learning the guitar for the last couple of years and I am in love with the series Firefly and it’s theme tune The Ballad of Serenity. The series is basically a space western type thingy. I’ve made my own version of the song – it’s sort of come out sounding PJ […]