Today is the International Day Against Homophobia – I was already working on this poem in light of all the gay marriage stuff going around. I wish I could have included more people in the poem but it was becoming unwieldy. For Those For those who would deny the Homosexual marriage Let all endevours of […]
Last week saw the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. I started off by going to see Domestic Cherry – so funny. It was Michael Scott and Hilda Sheechan in the personas of a Swidon Chav and a hyper kitch Housewife. The I headed out to dinner with one of the stewards and then onto Slak Bar to […]
It is now the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and I am running children’s workshops. This all started with poetry dragons and has grown 🙂 So now I have a giant version of part of my Monster Writing game complete with bag to keep it in! And we have the Poetry Bees who live in the Story […]
Last year saw the first ever Cheltenham Poetry Festival which as a family we very much enjoyed, I read out my Piaf Poem and we met loads of amazing poets and musicians. This year it is back – bigger and better! It runs from the 18th – 22nd of April and I even appear in […]
Last weekend was not only full of lots of lovely poetry events but I found out that I have won a bronze medal in the Gloucestershire Creative Olympics for my song Windy Gloucestershire 🙂 So I shall be going off to a lovely looking event at the end of April. Then on Sunday I managed […]
So tomorrow I am going to Oxford to read at The Not The Oxford Literary Festival, here is the Facebook events page. I have been working on a collection called Political Converse and the theme for the reading is Socio-Politics-Protest in literature so I will be reading poems from that such as Recipe For Riot […]
I don’t normally do more than one blog post a week on here but I felt that this was something that deserved the extra effort and push. Mab Jones who I first saw at the 2010 Wychwood Festival, is currently in Japan sharing welsh culture in the form of poetry. She is being funded for […]
This week is National Science and Engineering Week 2012 here in the UK – it is a week of events and out reach to show just how much we need science, and how much fun it can be along with just what is still out there to discover! I am of course the Scientific-Artist or […]
In February I ran a couple of workshops at Rowan Field Junior school – I had stuff for them to write poems for the dragons body, a poem about writing the poems for the dragons body, the Muse Monsters telling them things they should think about when writing poetry and stuff to make little dragons […]
This Sunday the 4th of March at Gloucester New Inn there is the monthly arty chill which I have been attending to read my works poetic. This Sunday however is slightly different as they are running a competition for Gloucestershires Poet Laureate. The first phase of which is audience votes so I would like some […]