Turquoise Monster

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.

The comic book craft fayre was AWESOME!!!! People were buying sets of my poetry zines.

I did however forget to take any spending money with me and so had to wait for people to buy things before I could order any food though Smokey Joes did give me a coffee before I had the money!

I wore my new felt wings which I made for a wedding during the summer – they light up and have a tail!

This Sunday we are going to be splitting in 2 and doing a magical flit to The True Believers Comic Book Christmas Faire at Smokey Joes in Cheltenham, and ALSO the Cranham Craft Fayre.

I’ll be taking The Little Book of Festive Poetry and Winters Bloom plus the stickers and cards and things I’ve made. I’ve also got some mini canvases I’ve made, mugs with art work from the Festive Poetry and some hand made creating tags etc…

Alaric will have some of my books but will mainly be selling candles 🙂

Friday 20th November Cheltenham The Strand 40-42 High St, Cheltenham GL50 1EE, I think it is like £5 to get in. This is a poetry event run by the Quiet Compere to coincide with the Medicine Unboxed conference that happens each year in Cheltenham. I have very kindly been asked to perform!

I am quiet excited about this and have prepared some special treats for the audience!

Last year I did an Advent painting challenge and produced a painting a day. The results are in this book along with a story-poem I have written to thread the pictures together.

It is a tale that pierces right through to the heart of mythology and to our feelings of loss and renewal. There are only 20 of these books and in this form that is all there will be!

I may put it out there in other formats but for now you can get this off of me at events and shows or you can message me and we can sort out buying online.

The paintings were done in water colours for those who are wondering 🙂

So a few years ago now I wrote a series of halloween poems for Jean who wanted something spooky but not scary and could only say spoogy as she was four or something. I then did a few more poems and typed it all up and did some illustrations the originals having been lost in a water drink spillage. And I got the Little Book of Spoogy Poetry which I put out as a down load, then I saved monies and got it printed and have been selling them and giving them as presents ever since.

Last year me and the yeti set out to do readings and halloween craft activities and the like so I sorted a couple of illustrations into colouring sheets which I am now posting on the internets for everyone to spread a bit of spoogy fun 🙂