The Bird King at Bastard Poems launch
Photos by Madeleine Rose Elliott I’ve written a little piece on my Steel Incisors blog about the launch event for SJ Fowler’s Bastard Poems. Please read it – and buy the book! And then come back here...
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I was invited to take part in a Poem Brut event in Bristol on the evening of Friday 15 October, a second launch of SJ Fowler’s wonderful Bastard Poems. Unfortunately I was indisposed, so the Bird King...
View ArticleFilm poem: Bloods Dream
I have made a film poem to accompany my recent book of visual poetry, Bloods Dream.
View ArticleThat was 2021
2021 was an interesting year for me. My working rhythms changed dramatically, as I found myself moving away from my previous pattern of creating small-scale projects very intensely over a few weeks...
View ArticleFrozen Meat
Last month saw the publication by the wonderful Sweat Drenched Press of a new slim volume of visual poetry, Frozen Meat. Frozen Meat explores the paradoxical stasis and explosiveness of written...
View ArticleCosmologorrhea at Writers’ Kingston
To celebrate the publication of Cosmologorrhea, my visual poetry collaboration with Richard Biddle, SJ Fowler invited us both to perform in an evening of readings and performances at Kingston...
View ArticleCosmic Horror
My new book, Cosmic Horror, has taken on physical form and is out in your world! Poet David Spittle kindly provided a blurb: “A primordial futurism in which no where or when survives beyond its...
View ArticleThat was 2022
I write an annual account of my literary/artistic and publishing activities largely so I have a record of the what and when, but also in the hope that other people might find it interesting. As ever,...
View ArticleThat was 2023
2023 was dominated by two big projects: publication of a huge anthology, and intensive work on a sprawling collection of visual poems. It has been the most productive year of my life, in terms of...
View ArticleThat was 2024
January Visual poems from my huge mixed-media project Moreau’s Doctored Bodies were published in Buzdokuz and Cutbow Quarterly (which has since gone on indefinite hiatus, so you can see the piece...
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