Poetic Interviews comes from a brilliantly simple idea: why not interview poets using poetry? Aaron Kent, Editor-in-Chief at Broken Sleep Books, and Chief Poetic Interviewer, corners poets, asks them questions in verse and gets poetic…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
