A reminder about this Saturday’s full day workshop at Carlisle Phil & Lit. Details/booking here: https://www.philandlit.org/. I’ll also post up some details here – on this post, too. If you’ve been to any previous workshops you’ll know that it is suitable for anyone – and hopefully that there’s a range of activities during the day, … More Poetry Course: Saturday

If you’d like to watch and hear the poem ‘Unthanks’, that I performed at Freiraum, you can find it at 01:26 in the film below. Thanks to Phil for all the filming and editing.

The films of Freiraum parts one and two have been posted onto YouTube, if you haven’t already seen them. You can find them below. Phil (I think) has captioned the Greek performers from the live link-up, so if you (like me) were desperately trying to keep up with the translation on paper during the performance … More Freiraum on Film

There are some new dates for anyone interested in poetry workshops run by myself. Saturday 2cnd February: full day workshop at Carlisle Phil & Lit. Saturday March 16th: half day workshop in Hexham. Details/booking here: https://www.philandlit.org/ The rest of the day of the Hexham course is given over to a Mike Smith fiction workshop, which … More Poetry Dates

I have done some thinking about a post by Mike Smith on the changes brought about by a digitalised accessing of books, film and music might have. You can read the piece, here: https://bhdandme.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/irrelevancies/. As usual, Mike’s writing is excellent. It might surprise you that if you ask Alexa to play the first track from the first Popol … More ‘Alexa? Please play “Ich mache einen Spiegel” by Popol Vuh’