Something scaly this way comes!
I’m all hot and bothered to announce the launch of Based on the card game The Beast, made by Naked Female Giant, Love Carcass is an erotish diary of one woman’s increasingly uncomfortable relationship with…
Poetry News gets vocal
I’m in the latest edition of Poetry News, published by the Poetry Society, talking about the links between voiceover and poetry. Thanks to Mike Sims for letting me step into the booth! For more information…
Poem: New North
New Year’s fear and Quantum Hotness
There’s a brilliant vignette in Adam Warren’s graphic novel Empowered in which the insecure hero’s boyfriend Thugboy lets us in on his theory of quantum hotness: It’s a prime cut of comic book truth that’s…
Play-poems and bardbots!
Advent is upon us, and we’ve been celebrating over at Sidekick Books! Every day we’ve opened a new window of poetry mishmashery, featuring: i) Hybardrid Twitterbots, mixing famous poets with other poets and other texts…
Poets Are So Excited – but does anybody care?
You can’t sit on your laurels as a writer, they say. Get out there on social media, they say. Plug your work. Brag your achievements. Promote promote promote. And they’re right. Sort of. Poetry doesn’t…
What a piece of work: poetry and technophobia
About a month ago, a contact on LinkedIn posted a link to a TED talk by writer Oscar Schwartz, titled “Can a computer write poetry?” Schwartz is one of the co-creators of the site Bot…
Chain reactions: Found in Translation at Club Inegales
Thursday 17th March 2016 saw one of the most exhilarating poetry performances I’ve ever witnessed, let alone taken part in. Club Inégales in Euston hosted Found in Translation, in which poets, illustrators and musicians came together…
Does poetry need genre boundaries?
In a book shop, poetry is at most divided by single author v anthology, or by time period. Most times, it is not divided at all, simply arranged alphabetically by author, which means unless you…
Haul Monitor: Collage, Tomboys and Crows
I’ve received a couple of fantastic things through the post of late, and thought I’d share the excitement. Pamphlet: Tomboys by Jon Stone. The pamphlet is an ode to three anime heroines: Utena from Revolutionary…