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…
readings
2nd Anniversary Reading at Open Book Tuesday October 3rd – better than Goose Fair
Date for your diary: Tuesday 3rd October 2023, from 8pm. Open mic, headline sets from Shaun Belcher and Tony Challis; plus special appearances from some mystery guests. So head to the Overlook Hotel, er, I mean The Organ Grinder, Nottingham and join in the fun. Anyone missing out will be “corrected”.
Organ Grinder Reading
My Back Pages
A selection of published and self-published volumes 1992-2022…30 years! I will be reading poems from these various collections tonight at The Organ Grinder with Neil Fulwood. Here my CV 🙂 A NEW YEAR GREETING ****(poem here) Addenda: What I am not. Shaun Belcher is the author of one out of print slim volume that disappeared…
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
After twenty years chez Nottingham I finally been invited to share my thoughts at a reading. So if you wish to listen to a couple of bolshy poets tearing down the walls of heartache now’s your chance… Neil Fulwood been around a bit has some books and generally a good egg…. He will be promoting…
Edwin Smith – Catching Light – Recordings
EDWIN SMITH POEMS Back in October 2014 (now six years ago) I was on the first term of a Creative Writing M.A. at NTU. I was also with uncanny timing commissioned (the first and so far the only time I been commissioned) by R.I.B.A. through Apple and Snakes to write in response to a lovely…
Burning Books: Horseshoe Press Mini Pamphlet No.1
The Horseshoe Press http://www.horseshoepress.co.uk is my self-publishing of poetry website. The latest ‘Mini Pamphlet’ is ‘Burning Books’ published to coincide with Theresa May’s attempt to drive this country even further to the right…. Eight poems about politics, books and poetry to be given away free at the Jermy and Westerman reading on Wednesday 26th…
Poetry Reading at Jermy and Westerman for Nottingham Poetry Festival
Reading with one of my favourite poets at my favourite bookshop Jermy and Westerman on Mansfield Road as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival in April.
The Bear Pit – Oxford Channel 6 TV – 1999
Filmed for poetry slot on Oxford 6 one of the first local TV channels in the country. Filmed direct off TV hence quality. Summer 1999? I am stood on location i.e. in the Bear Pit it still there 🙂 I am a lot younger (40) thinner and beardier… The Bear Pit – Long Wittenham –…
Edwin Smith Poem – now online at RIBA website
RIBA have finally put up the poem…so you can read it now I provided a ‘referenced’ version and a ‘clean’ none annotated version they went with referenced…strangely but there you go ‘Catching Light’….I have also provided a recording of myself reading (no footnotes;-) which will be uploaded later I presume.