Hands
A poem of mine, ‘Hands’,  has just gone up on Folia Magazine online – you can read it here. The poem came out of a workshop a couple of...
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- Oct 6, 2013
- 1 min
Waterstone’s and Rats
On Tuesday, I’ll be reading alongside other LS13 Anthology writers at Waterstone’s in Leeds city centre, from 7pm. It would be lovely to...
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- Aug 7, 2013
- 3 min
Processing the Bogle – as Ivor Cutler
Ivor Cutler, January 15, 1923 – March 3, 2006. For a while now I’ve wanted to write and perform something as – channelling, or in tribute...
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- Jul 26, 2013
- 1 min
Notes on the Pedal Post-Mortem
This poem’s been rattling around my head for a while, so I made myself get on with it for a bike zine (on the theme of ‘wheels’) which is...
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- Jul 17, 2013
- 1 min
Love The Words on ELFM
I went along to ELFM Towers yesterday for a chat with the ever-gracious Peter Spafford on his monthly extravaganza of all things wordy,...
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- Jun 7, 2013
- 1 min
Poetry by HEART flyer
26th June at the Heart Centre, Headingley – come along! #writing #poets #creativewriting #poetry #HEadingley #Leeds
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- May 31, 2013
- 1 min
LS13 Anthology and Upcoming Gigs
A quick update also that – GOOD NEWS – I’m going to be one of the poets featured in the LS13 Leeds Writers anthology, about which more...
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- May 8, 2013
- 1 min
Cycle Geo for Leeds Bike Fest
Exciting news! Alongside artist Paul Hurley, I shall be running workshops for East Street Arts‘ city-wide bike fest event – our...
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- Apr 24, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 24: Dust Across the Beam
Hyde Park Picture House: 100 in 2014! As you may have noticed, things have been a bit cinematic on my blog during NaPoWriMo. I’m reading...
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- Apr 21, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 21: White Violin or, Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler
Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler – as so described on the signs in Temple Newsam House! Filling in an earlier gap from NaPoWriMo: I...
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- Apr 16, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 16: Emancipation on Briggate
Fortunately, the wheelie bin I saw on the move this morning off Briggate was not air-borne (just ground-borne – can something be...
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- Apr 15, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 15: Transaction on a Spring Day – A Pantum
The OWL (Observation Wheel Leeds) at night – which is the ‘great revolving wheel’ in the poem… Today’s prompt: a Malay verse-form “of...
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- Apr 15, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 13: Windowless Walls
Bagel Nash, which was once the News Theatre, by Leeds Station I continue to run at a poetical-deficit, but will catch up soon (12 and 14...
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- Apr 13, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 11: Double-Duvet Mecca
A pair of washers at a washeteria Day 11’s prompt was to write a Tanka (five-line stanzas with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables) – so I’ve used the...
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- Apr 4, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 3: A Sea Shanty for Failed Urban Development
Prompt no. 3 of NaPoWriMo was to write a sea shanty. This pleased me greatly as I’m a part of (when I can make it!) the Ocean Loiners – a...
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- Mar 29, 2013
- 1 min
The Trailer Tent
Greetings, Something a bit different! I recently wrote some stream-of-consciousness reviews of film promos for The Leeds Debacle...
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- Mar 11, 2013
- 2 min
Card-board Word-hoard: Sunday 17th March
Sunday, 2pm at Melbourne Street Studios, Leeds. YOU SHOULD COME. IT WILL BE FUN AND MESSY. Bring: glue sticks, scissors, old newspapers...
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- Mar 8, 2013
- 1 min
Wicked Words review
A review! Thanks Martin – glad you enjoyed the cockroach and its epic fishing-rod antennae: they were pound shop’s finest, sewn into a...
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- Feb 7, 2013
- 1 min
Wicked Words
I took part in the Wicked Words open mic event last night at 7 Arts in Chapel Allerton. What a splendid night – some awesome poetry about...
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