Workshop for Humans
“intelligent, odd, scary” This afternoon, I went to a ‘Workshop for Humans’ with Alex Bailey & Krõõt Juurak – after they came in...
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Sep 5, 20161 min
Writing Between the Lines
“a transitory and changing constellation of percepts, hunger and muscular flexing” – a quote about the swallow, from Andrew Jeffrey‘s...
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Aug 25, 20161 min
Growing Bolder Video
Here’s a short film made by me, about the excellent Growing Bolder project – funded by Bristol Ageing Better – and the performance we did...
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Jul 15, 20161 min
First Story Residency
(Here’s a film about the Young Writers’ Festival that First Story organises…) Now it’s all confirmed, I thought I’d do a quick blog about...
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Jun 28, 20161 min
Limericks
For my Off The Record WRITE OFF group today, we had a lovely time reading some Limericks and then having a go at writing our own…Here’s...
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Jun 17, 20161 min
NOT TODAY
Last week in my group with Off The Record, we looked at Andrew McMillan’s poem ‘TODAY’ from his great collection Physical (which you...
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Jun 13, 20163 min
The Pact
One of the goaty references in my goaty piece… I put a piece of writing into the View from the Pen event at Windmill Hill City Farm –...
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Jun 2, 20161 min
Visual Verse: Pachycephalosaurus
I’m one of the featured writers this month, on the excellent Visual Verse… You can read my curious poem here – and then submit your own...
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May 23, 20161 min
Ware Poets Competition Commendation
A little ‘hooray for me’ post: I have been commended in the Ware Poets Open Competition 2016, for my poem The Thereminist Hails a Bus....
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May 11, 20161 min
WRITE OFF from June 7th
The next WRITE OFF sessions start Tuesday June 7th at Beatroots Cafe, Lower Park Row, 17.00 – 18.30, for six weeks. The young people who...
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May 3, 20162 min
NaPoWriMo 4.30 – Ate Night Moat
This is my day 30 (final one for the year) effort for National Poetry Writing Month. It’s a homophonic translation (according to sound,...
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Apr 29, 20161 min
NaPoWriMo 2.29: The Bristol Queen
The Bristol Queen… I’ve been travelling to Weston-super-Mare the last couple of weeks to run a course – and have noticed a boat on...
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Apr 29, 20161 min
NaPoWriMo 4.28: Ideas
A zoo sign from Bristol Zoo – and a wonderful artistic intervention. Something from today, for yesterday…I ran a group today and we...
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Apr 27, 20161 min
NaPoWriMo 2.27: Tele
Very long lines was today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo – I’m not sure mine are quite long enough, but I don’t have much time today – and have...
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Apr 26, 20161 min
NaPoWriMo 4.26: Views From the Pen
There was something I really wanted to write for a submission this week – so I duly have (and am treating it as my daily poem – though...
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Apr 25, 20161 min
NaPoWriMo 4.25: La Belle Dame…
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Dicksee And so I’m up to date, with two ekphrastic poems… This second one inspired by the above...
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Apr 25, 20161 min
NaPoWriMo 4.24: The Wild Beast Show
The Wild Beast Show (1932) by Edward Seago Having just been up to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, I’ve written a couple of...
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Apr 23, 20161 min
NaPoWriMo 4.23: My Hitman
A quick and very-first-draft one today (which may remain so) – written in response to a prompt in Helena Nelson’s book How (not) To Get...
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Apr 22, 20161 min
NaPoWriMo 4.22: The Thereminist Hails a Bus
Lydia Kavina played some wonderful contemporary classical for theremin, as well as some marvellous sci-fi and mystery classics, like Mars...
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Apr 21, 20161 min
NaPoWriMo 4.21: Entrance Only
We were at a funeral yesterday and I wrote something about waiting to go to such a ceremony at a crematorium – and also touching on them...
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