Poetry video: We Were Making Fairytales
…performed at ARTournament in Gloucester on April 2nd. Part of a new project about creative friendships inspired by Patti Smith’s Just Kids, Katelan Foisy’s Blood and Pudding, and a dear dear friend...
View ArticleLast Man Out of Eden - CD & pamphlet
So I've finally got some new work to show for myself. Last Man Out of Eden is a CD and pamphlet of performance pieces out on June 12th (which, coincidentally, is the date of the Hammer and Tongue...
View ArticleFree Flash
Tomorrow is National Flash Fiction Day. Which brings much cause for celebration. First off, this is the first time ever we’ve celebrated this marvellous form as a nation – the Arts Council have even...
View ArticleTurning Points
EDITED TO ADD - it only just dawned on me the catalyst for this thought process was this incredible, moving, insightful post from Sophie at Little Fish, an Oxford band whose integrity and ethos have...
View ArticleAction Points
On Sunday months of unease and a moment of revelation culminated in a rather long and introspective post about the way I’ve been using my time, and the changes I need to introduce to keep my sanity and...
View ArticleSelf-publishers fail to earn a fortune shock!
The Taleist today published the results of its survey into self-published authors' earnings and their habits. They asked 1007 authors 61 questions, which mkes it undoubtedly an important event. The...
View ArticleBe Spectacular (and be more French)
(my new collection of poetry is available for Kindle & Kindle app here for £1) The inscription at the front of my book (life:) razorblades included says simply"be spectacular and die living"That's...
View ArticleWhy "How To Self-publish" guides systematically give you the wrong advice:...
A couple of years ago, in the earliest nanoseconds of the big Kindle bang as Brian Cox might say, you could barely come across a post about self-publishing that didn’t refer to Kevin Kelly’s seminal...
View ArticlePerforming at Stoke Newington Literary Festival This Weekend
(keep up with all my writerly goings on through my Facebook page) Title says it all! It was an amazing show last year - do come along this Sunday :) Here's the gen! "a brilliant night" (For Books'...
View Article1000 true fans part 2
The 1000 true fan approach essentially affects two things about your creative life – the things you do and the things you sell. OK, put together, that’s just about everything. Let me put it simply and...
View ArticleFinals
(yeah, the whole I'm on Facebook thing)No, not the exam kind - I'm WAY too decrepit for that. Rather, the poetry slam kind. All the info on the poster. The Facebook event is here. And tix here. I have...
View ArticleHungerford Bridge at the Hammer and Tongue Final (video)
Performing Hungerford Bridge at the Hammer and Tongue Oxford grand Final. Really really pleased with how it went - huge thanks to James Webster for some very helpful tips.
View ArticleWhat Do you Stand For
(I'm delighted to be guest posting over at teh Alliance of Independent Authors' Self-publishing advice blog) I get why writers resent the question: “What do you stand for?” You can understand it in two...
View Articlementalist (performed live at the Hammer and Tongue slam Oxford 2012 grand final)
My poem about the effects of the government's workfare scheme on those with mental health disabilities, performed at the Oxford Hammer and Tongue final on June 12th where I was lucky enough for it to...
View ArticleSquee! Why I'm excited that My Piece About Alt Lit is in the Guardian
Yesterday the Guardian published a piece of mine about where in the literary world writers are getting to grips with the internet and its impact on our lives their books blog (even better, they had...
View Articleall of these taxonomies are political
Click the image above or click here to download your free copy of all these taxonomies are political, or visit the book's smashwords page for a free copy in all ebook formats. This book is an...
View Articlethis is geoffrey hill's poetry
this is geoffrey hill’s poetrythis is geoffrey hill’s poetrythis is geoffrey hill’s poetrythis is geoffrey hill’s poetrythis is geoffrey hill’s poetrythis is geoffrey hill’s poetrythis is geoffrey...
View Articledownload steve roggenbuck for free
click on the image above or on this sentence to download the free pdf. Click on this sentence to download for free in all other ebook formats."steve roggenbuck" printed in every font on my computer's...
View ArticleThe Next Big Thing: Kill Land
The idea of this is that a writer puts up a post on his or her own blog answering ten questions about his/her work in progress, and then “tags” three – or five, depending on which version you see –...
View ArticleSome of These Things Are Beautiful
I am delighted to say that my first solo show, Some of These Things are Beautiful, will be at Cheltenham Poetry Festival on April 24th 2013.“go out and live. And live. And go on living, because you...
View ArticleDreaming of Narwhals
Today is National Flash Fiction Day. I will be hosting a flash slam in Oxford to celebrate. I have also been judging flash fiction – for a super League of Extraordinary Authors competition – you can...
View ArticleOur problem is not "a bit of snow" but something more malign
As Britainonce again grinds to a halt in the face of the weather, it is time to reflect that our problem is not, as many will say, that we can’t cope with a bit of snow. It is something far more...
View ArticleA Novel that has No Words
(click the cover or here to download the free pdf of Evie and Guy. If you enjoy it and/or want me to be able to do more similar things in future, you may Paypal whatever you feel appropriate but only...
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Now available for Kindle in the UK for £1.88 and in the US for $2.99 as well as in all other Amazon territoriesThe perfect Christmas present for anyone whose New Year's resolution is to self-publish in...
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