My commission, ‘I have become the Green Man’, for World Poetry Day is now up here. I would like to thank Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry Library for commissioning me during a challenging time.
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Publicity for New Commission
Some recent publicty from the Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry Library commission to celebrate UNESCO’s World Poetry Day with a poetry film to be broadcast on Sunday 21st March 2021. I have been commissioned beside Ali Al-Jamri, Dom Conlon, Imtiaz Dharker and Roma Havers and other poets from fellow UNESCO Cities of Literature….
New Commission
I am proud to announce that I have been commissioned by Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry Library to celebrate UNESCO’s World Poetry Day with a poetry film to be broadcast on Sunday 21st March 2021. I have been commissioned beside Ali Al-Jamri, Dom Conlon, Imtiaz Dharker and Roma Havers and other poets from…
Being Ruthless
You can follow me here each Wednesday through the #clifimadness project which chronicles my research into climate change and how addressing it in fiction, the novel form, may be the answer to reaching a wider audience. I will chronicle my everyday ramblings on twitter and Facebook, please sign up for info there. There are moments…
A Year of Writing: Days 291-300
Day 291 of #ayearofwriting and when I am not writing or on here, I think about my characters and what needs to be done or could be done. I have been concerned at the ending of my Ms Hayashida story, this will be my last story before I move back into climate change fiction, that it simply…
A Year of Writing: Days 141-150
Day 141 of #ayearofwriting an I am under 10,000 words and have the Bridport firmly in my sight. I am cutting and stripping away everything that brings nothing to the story. The myth like quality of Saul’s past is therefore magnified in this process and Alphin and Alder stomp through his dreams. Day 142 of #ayearofwriting and the work…
A Year of Writing: Days 131-140
Day 131 of #ayearofwriting and it is often hard to balance family, work and writing but as a writer you have to be a little selfish, set aside time to write, even if it is in a corner of a wedding reception. Writers like all people have many masks, and we have dilemmas too, more about that…
The North Has Risen and Showered
There is always the cry that the North (not the north because let’s face facts while Southern counties where scratching in the dirt, the North had created the North) ‘will rise!’ The truth is that we have risen, showered, breakfasted and gone to work, some of us in the very industries that used to be…
This Thursday in Liverpool: Robin Hood is back, and he’s pissed off.
Poets Against Poverty, Verse Versus Austerity, Poets from across the North and South come together at the Bluecoat to launch the Robin Hood book (http://www.therecusant.org.uk/#/the-robin-hood-book/4563100507). The Robin Hood Book is described as a ‘Provoking, entertaining, moving and heartening, it is an extraordinarily rich selection of funny, angry, polemical, satirical, sad and wise poetry …a huge…
Coming Soon: Lung Jazz
Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Cinnamon Press 2012) will be released in May and features my poem In the Mist. It has a foreword by David Lehman and the editors, Todd Swift and Kim Lockwood.
Master Motivator
Great news, a short film that I was involved in is on at the first Screen Stockport Film Festival tonight, more details at http://www.screenstockport.co.uk/shortlist.html
Ghosts of a Low Moon in Waterstones
Whilst passing Waterstones the other day I was surprised to see a copy of my new collection in the window. Yes, it was in the window. I nearly fell over with the shock but as I lie on the couch being fanned with a large palm leaf in the hands of my wife I have…
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