The Salt Modern Voices Pamphlet No. 6 which was issued as part of a Salt print on demand experiment in 2010 is no longer available and all references to book and author have been removed from the Salt website in a recent upgrade. Chris Hamilton-Emery has moved Salt steadily towards a more fiction based list…
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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.
How to stop being a poet.
For my creative writing course I have to produce an ‘Influence’ essay by next Monday and it proving to be a really hard call for me. Not because the essay in itself difficult (see previous post) but because it like a blood-letting leach to a sick patient in terms of the whys and wherefores of…
Crawling from the wreckage…
I have just re-read the post below which was written the week before my mother’s funeral. She had Carcinoid Cancer which was diagnosed in 2005 the year after my father died of Pancreatic Cancer which he was diagnosed with in 2002. My sister and I therefore have been dealing with cancer and its personal…
Salt Modern Voices Tour Autumn 2011
http://saltmodernvoices.wordpress.com/readings/ Readings Salt Modern Voices: Oxford. Shaun Belcher,  Mark Burnhope, Emily Hasler and Claire Trevien read at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop on 24 October 2011. Salt Modern Voices: London. A two-part event on 14 and 28 November 2011 at The Compass: 14th November: Shaun Belcher, Adrian Slatcher, Lee Smith, and JT Welsch 28th November: Mark Burnhope, Emily…
Salt Modern Voices readings and website
Salt Modern Voices –U.K. Tour As one of the current crop of Salt Modern Voices pamphleteers I am engaged in helping to organise a series of UK wide readings this autumn and on into next year. So far there are definite dates in London ( Compass Islington ) Warwick,  Manchester and hopefully more to follow…
Last Farmer: Salt Modern Voices No.6
Yes I finally have a solo publication as a poet. Not bad after 25 years of writing. It is due to be released soon and you can pre-order from Amazon and Asda (links below). My thanks to Chris Hamilton Emery and Salt for picking up on the poems. I am really chuffed that I am…