NORMAL TOWN POET
So finally here it is the all new revised second edition of Thames Valley Texas published to coincide with the reading I giving at Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot on Friday 7th November. I will be supporting the acclaimed new country singer Hannah White and The Dreaming Spires whose new LP ‘Normal Town’ is a suite…
Ever felt down in the dumps? That the world not recognising your talents..that fame will always elude you? Fear not Mark Z and crew have the perfect solutionJUST ASK META!You will be surprised what comes back…. Shaun Belcher Poet? Shaun Belcher is indeed a poet, but I couldn’t find much information about him. Can you…
Over the last six months I have wasted time on submitting to a list of poetry magazines. When I began my career (in brackets like above) there was no choice. Pre internet the only viable visibility for a poet was through the list of poetry journals which I had to photocopy as a minion at…
Poems written in London and Oxfordshire. Published in early 1990s in Last Gasp pamphlets. Last Gasp was a poetry open mic I helped run with poets Giles Goodland and Bridget Kursheed in Oxford. From 1986 I was heavily influenced by Raymond Carver and especially his book FIRES. Indeed I attended his memorial readings event in…
I shall be reading from new Horseshoe Press pamphlet ‘Thames Valley Texas’ next Tuesday at the Organ Grinder on Open Books second birthday. Without the hard work of the T S Eliot of Bus Drivers there would be no Open Book so thank you Neil Fulwood here’s to the next two years… http://www.openbook.org.uk/
Having dipped my toe in Poetry World UK again I starting to get my bearings. Here a online statistics crib that may tell some of the story: Poetry book sales in the UK Source: https://wordsrated.com/poetry-book-sales-statistics/ It not great. The biggest news to me as a 65 year old male is that the demographics of actual…