Saturday saw me once again in Waterstones Cheltenham at a poetry event – unfortunately I couldn’t stay much longer than my reading 🙁 Which was such a shame considering the line up! Here are the photos And here is a video of it The first one Shy has been recorded with a hammond organ. Shy […]
I now have poetry cards for my Celestial Montage. I’m selling them for £2 each – I think they have come out great 🙂 I will have them with me on Thursday (12th of July 2012) for Science Show Off at the Grain Barge in Bristol and again at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire on Saturday.
Sunday saw me dashing off to Stroud for the 40 yr celebration of the canal restoration to read poetry at the Stroud On Water Festival. I was sad I hadn’t made it on the previous days to see some of the fantastic acts but very happy to have been asked to read. We were running […]
At the weekend I took part in the Site Festival Slam in Stroud – it was held in a lovely little venue hidden down a side ally that I didn’t even know existed. I was very very nervous – but Marcus Moore greeted me in a friendly way and soon familiar faces from poetry readings […]
I will be performing in my first ever slam tomorrow Friday 25th of May 2012 at the Stroud Site Festival Slam run by Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury. Though I have done lots of poetry readings, including performance poetry pieces and even run workshops on poetry, I am finding this a bit scary due to […]
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 […]