Tomorrow I will be at the Ok True Believers Comic Festival – I have 15 titles including the much loved Wiggly Pet Adventures, poetry zines and Winter’s Bloom. The new one which I am still binding into shape as we speak is my illustrated non-linear concrete/visual poem about identity – A Stranger Dream – of which there are ten copies only and are colouring and painting safe. I will also have some original artworks with me 😀
Each year in February I run a poetry writing drive called WoPoWriMo – There are tutorials and how to material on the WoPo site and a pinterest board called WoPo Inspired for those who work best from visuals.
I’ll be organising meet ups in my local area and posting in the Facebook group. Good Luck.
On the 20th of February we will be at Pico-con, a little micro (or pico) convention for sci-fi, fantasy etc… it is organised by the scifi library at Imperial College which is where I did my undergraduate studies.
I am quiet excited about returning 🙂 Especially to pico con last time I went I was using a walking stick and feeling old this time I am not.
I’ll be taking an assortment of poetry zines, wiggly pets including the little figurines I make and my steam punk and fantasy jewellery ranges.
Obviously my scifi writing is the main emphasis but there will be poetry there too!
I have insomnia at the moment why do I have insomnia? Because I’ve reached project tipping over point – I am currently working in a conceptual art piece about the self identity and relationships an society it is a visual poem – illustrated piece the us non-linear. I am also representing it as a colouring book and launching it at the comic book festival in Cheltenham feb the 6 th and am also wondering about sneaking it into picocon with scifi and horror stuff – this is why I have insomnia.
I am in a quandary – when I ink this in should the background be solid black or made up of cracks?
Last year was a bit of a nightmare but somehow I still managed to produce zines and stuff for books and that is what I plan for this year!
So I have all the Inktober work which turns out to be a visual poem on identity – the head bang has left me unsure of various thing like when someone asked me what my favourite colour was I said green. Everyone around me paused… my house is decorated purple, most of my fancy cloths are purple, my kid cries “no it’s not it’s purple” and I remembered but you see when I was 5 my favourite colour was green because I had not yet found lavender, that would not happen until I was 7 and my aunt had her wedding with me as a bridesmaid and I’ve kind of been growing up all over again.
This means I am very confused as to who I am, hubby reckons I am me bit with a few oddities like I swear where I didn’t but it strikes at a core note of what makes me… me?
Add in disability, orientations and what not on top and the whole question of who you are and who you are allowed to be surfaces along with societal ostricisations.
I may well be exploring these a little more in the coming year.
Well I hit my head at a festival back in May-June and it has been a long road to recovery but I am getting there and I have started to produce work again. My word usage is a bit broken but that is not a bad thing for poetry and story writing.
I am performing again and writing again and I’ve drawn a visual poem that I think I might turn into a book. I don’t think it would have existed if I had not hit my head.
So with all that in mind and a suit of Drs, nurse and hospital appointments I plan to make the most of work I have already written as well as producing new things.
The thing is that I could have died and was lucky and if I’d died then all the notebooks of poems would not have turned into the poems they should be and my epic novel series would never be and the paintings I want to paint…
This means I want to work hard on my projects and get them finished… you know just in case 🙂
Only a few days left of the Bristol Bizaar now! We are based at The Island in Bristol and there are some amazing things here – this is my stall complete with the story telling tree sans it’s normal poetry bees!
I was asked to take part in the Quiet Compares event and it was fantastic! Based on the theme of space I made a little booklet and got my new dress with pictures of galaxies on it!
Sarah who runs the event did this lovely write up! Sarah Who Wears Space
I am going to be taking part in the Market Under the Moon/Bristol Bizar’s Christmas Pop Up Shop at the Island in Bristol. I believe it is the old police station. It’s above an art gallery and will be there for 2 weeks. I’m taking poetry as well as craft things 🙂
Poetry wise there will be The Little Book of Festive Poetry, The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry, Celestial Montage and other Poems about Space, The Politically Converse, Me, Myself and I, Winters Bloom (which is kind of a story and kind of a poem written from the images I painted last year), and Fantasmagrams (which is a little portfolio piece on my art work but with poetic subtext).
I shall also be performing on the opening night and during a fund raiser for the refugees in Calais.