Empires of Clay
Not the right sort of voice
In 2014 I recorded two of my poems for poetry films. The Bristol-based film-maker Pru Fowler did a stunning job and we launched the films twice, once in her city and once in Leeds. Paisley Quilt was shown and reviewed on the Moving Words website and, since making it available online, we received many positive…
EMPIRES OF CLAY LAUNCH
The launch of my first full poetry collection Empires of Clay began dramatically with a text from my publisher Jan Fortune of Cinnamon Press to say that she had been knocked over at York train station and had injured her leg. Fortunately she wasn’t badly hurt but she would be unable to compere the…
On the publication of my first poetry collection and why I’m too stubborn to pick one form or genre and stick to it
A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson Come November 2016 my poems will live, not just in small gatherings at spoken word gigs or in anthologies, magazines and websites but en masse within a real paper and print…