Tomorrow evening (Thursday 6th June), I’ll be reading poems from ‘Dramatis Personae’ at Words On Waves, Harbour Books, Whitstable. There are also readings from other writers published by Whisky & Beards. The event starts at 6.45pm, tickets are £3. Advertisements Continue reading
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New book, ‘Dramatis Personae’, released
My latest book, Dramatis Personae, has just been published by Thanet-based Whisky & Beards, who are currently nominated for a prestigious Saboteur Award as “most innovative publisher”. It’s a slim chapbook (pamphlet) of poems, most written over the past year or so, each focusing on a historical person – and in one case, two people … Continue reading
The Orange Dress
She was wearing her orange dress, the orange dress that made her as vivid as a flare or a firework, and she was dancing through the empty streets. Dancing, she felt that all the world was hers. Dancing, she felt that all the world was bliss. Dancing, she could never run out of breath. She … Continue reading
Towards memoir
By way of an experiment, really, I’ve recently been indulging in some autobiographical writing. Not that I’ve done anything of world-changing significance to warrant that, obviously, but it struck me that life and the world around us change fast, and the character of an earlier time, how it was actually lived, and the memory of … Continue reading
The Snake Catcher
It can only have been coincidence, but I had been dreaming of vipers. Many vipers, writhing together within a deep cave. In the morning, my mother saw them through the kitchen window, like a big undulating knot in the garden. When they noticed us peering through the window, some of them rose up and spat … Continue reading
The Bench
She had only gone down to the riverbank so that she could feed the ducks, she did the same every day and this had never happened before. She thought this each time a sodden piece of bread floated by, which was frequently. As for the ducks, they simply looked at her with quizzical expressions as … Continue reading
The Future is Now
All creative work is, in essence, a sorcerous activity; art is ritual, as ritual is art. The process of creation is often the primary concern, rather than the finished product. Images can function as doorways. My interest is the Inner nature, not the outward appearance of things. One learns by doing, and by failing. It … Continue reading
