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 […]
In April I went and performed in my fourth ever poetry slam – this time it was War of the Words at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. As typified by the other slams I came last but I am happy as I performed my best yet in my opinion. I did my poem Shy about selective […]
I went to a sell out event at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival were Dan Sluman and Mark Burnhope both read out their amazing works. Both explored illness and life altering events as well as the obsession with death and sex and a myrraid of other topics. All sculpted into a lyrical wonder. Also I found […]
I did a poem a day writing challenge in April – it was exhausting as I wrote and wrote and wrote and started to create concepts for visual poetry that I want to make. The amount of drawing that I now need to do to make these poems a proper reality is a little daunting […]
Last night I went to watch my friend Dan Holloway perform his show Some of These Things Are Beautiful as part of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. He is a fantastic poet and as always his set was emotionally charged dealing with creative freedom and the intensity of life and death. Lighting levels at the venue […]
Last night I went to a truly inspiring event – So It Goes by the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. Sound rippled around the room, building and echoing and fading away to almost nothingness, reminding me of the psychedelic of previous decades mixed with the fragments of poems building up to create […]
This is the amazing knitted poem currently on display in Cheltenham Waterstones, it was knitted for the Cheltenham Poetry Festival by the local knitting groups as part of an initiative set up by Centre Arts. The poem is John Hegley’s The Price of Art in Luton as found in his collection Dog. I believe the […]
Saturday 20th April 2013 will see me taking part in the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam! It takes place at Copa in Cheltenham and is £7 or £5 for concessions. I am desperately trying to memorise some newer poems for this! If anybodies about came and see some fantastic poets (not me the other guys!).
I am currently in the middle of trying to make a booklet for a physical run of the Ballads of the Scientifica – a collection of poems about science, plus one story and a song. When I initially released it free last year it only had ten poems but that number has grown a bit […]
Another February gone and a note book full of poems it has wrought. I have a lot of editing a head of me as I always do after such writing challenges. I want to let the poems I’ve not popped on here (of which there are alot from various workshops and writing meet-ups I went […]