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.
Tag: Poetry
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…
Lincoln Review
Great to be included in the first edition of the Lincoln Review with some fabulous poets and writers. You can see the full issue here.
Ms Burns and The Greeks
School in the days before GCSE and after O Level was a no man’s land of learning. Back then teachers had been thrown from the streaming nature of O Level and CSE into the what was referred to in whispers in the staff room as the General Collapse of Secondary Education (GCSE). As bad science…
Next Generation Poets
I have watched with interest and unease the growing bile bucket that is slopping over the internet. What could be causing such vitriol on social media? Poetry. To be specific it’s the Next Generation Poets list. The twenty poets who are the next best thing for poetry. The arguments on social media are like the…
In Defence of Festivals
For those of you who use social media and read the press you will have seen a rise of criticism against some of the bigger festivals, including Hay. Accusations of commercialism, poor pay or no pay for middle rung writers – those authors readers may know but who have yet to make a massive media…
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…
Andrew Oldham's Boneyard 