Chimera
I am thrilled to announce that Chimera, my book of visual poetry, is out with the wonderful Penteract Press on the 27th of June! The protagonist of James Knight’s Chimera is an imaginary organism...
View Articlepiece for orchestra
This poem is part of a new sequence in which I explore some of the implications of theoretical physics through the prism of our incomprehension and our anthropocentric view of the universe. The...
View Articleera / error
era / error is a new film poem, made as a companion piece to Chimera, my book of visual poems. Like the book, it presents the evolution of an imaginary organism. It is also a meditation on language...
View ArticleMachine
I’m excited to report that I have a new chapbook coming out later this month with fledgling indie publisher Trickhouse Press. Machine is a long poem in several voices, in which I play on the notion of...
View Articlesteel incisors
With its wealth of skilled practitioners, online exhibition spaces and small presses, visual poetry is in an exciting place. But it can afford to look further beyond itself and engage more boldly with...
View ArticleBeautiful ruins
We all enjoy beautiful ruins, stone monuments to past civilisations and achievements made appealingly impotent, incomplete. The Roman emperors and medieval bishops no longer hold any power over us,...
View ArticleWriter / Hydra
voices in the storm by James Knight In a black book or someone’s imagination Mike Corrao lays out the corpse of lower-case howling ape allen ginsberg. In a black book or someone’s imagination Mike...
View ArticleSpiralling Down
For Trent Reznor I have long been fascinated by perilous, involuntary descents, the body or mind in a state of paroxysmal collapse. Lucifer forever falling after his defeat by God, fixed perpetually...
View Article(dis/re)membered
I am thrilled to announce that my new book of visual poetry, (dis/re)membered, is out now! The book explores the relationship between a growing, ageing body and the spaces it inhabits. Themes such as...
View ArticleCosmic Horror
Remixed visual poem from my series The Sea as a Metaphor for Death One of my main writing projects this year is a cycle of poems and visual poems entitled Cosmic Horror. The poems arose organically...
View ArticleThat was 2020
2020 has proved to be a strange and traumatic year for all of us, and we have all found different ways of coping. Something that has kept me going has been my creative work. Here’s a month-by-month...
View ArticleChristmas freebies
In his magnanimity, the Bird King (pictured) has decided to advertise as freebies some of my ebooks. They were already free, but no matter! Simply click on the cover image to download as a PDF. Merry...
View ArticleRites and Passages
My new chapbook, out now with the wonderful Salò Press, is a mini choose-your-own-adventure book, inspired by FPS games like Doom and the labyrinthine fiction of French experimentalist Alain...
View ArticleBloods Dream
My new cycle of visual poems, Bloods Dream, is available now from innovative publisher Beir Bua Press. This little book is important to me, partly because of the new processes I employed in making it,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe Bird King in Bristol
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...
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