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 […]
Each year I have three standard Poem a Day challenges, these are Month of Poetry in January, World Poetry Writing Month in February which I run and National Poetry Writing Month in April. This writing challenges really help me focus and write down all the stuff that buzzes around my head. I then spend the […]
The Maze Festival event was amazing, there were fab stories and I have got photos…. but… whilst getting out of our van and into the venue I was verbally insulted as was my daughter and then whilst we were in the venue our van was smeared in human poo. I am very upset about this […]
Not quiet poetry but it is related honest! So Saffron Waldon has a Maze Festival and on the 19th of August they are having an opening event called “I Got Lost” at the football club. I am going to be telling a story about getting lost – I will give you a clue it is […]
I take too long to sign books! This is a photo of me during the launch day signing the books – these were special ones to be fair and I was going over board on decorating them – as in the “signature” was pretty much a page spread, hand drawn and personalised! But I like […]
Within and Without by Salaric I recorded a sound track to go with my non-linear poem on identity Love: A Stranger Dream.
I’ve been making key rings using the art work out of my visual poetry colouring book Love: A Stranger Dream.
Well it has been a busy summer already and we are only about half way through! I’ve just finished my main festival rounds but still have a couple to go! Events: 16-17 July – Horoscope Life and Ecstasy – performance 19th-21st Aug Maze Festival – performance 27-28 August – The Grand Mock-Tales and Creativity Tea […]
Tonight Friday 13th I will be performing in the Cheltenham Poetry Festivals Slam – Slam Burger. I will be swearing on stage, in a poem, this is actually an incredibly hard thing for me to do… I can just see all the little old ladies from the church of my youth frowning at me in […]
This weekend (22-24 April 2016) there will be a virtual launch party for my non-linear visual poetry colouring in book A Stranger Dream. It is a stark book, a book of hate and isolation, a book of hope and love. The images tackle the thorny issues of self-identity and the pain of isolation and ostracism, […]