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Towns on Shallow Hills 1990 Pamphlet
I was tipped off about this great free flipbook software by Anthony Howell. So here is my very first Poetry Pamphlet which I made on the Poetry Library London’s photocopier as that was mostly my job there. I made 25 and sold them for £1.50 (big money in 1990) and sold out although Ivor Cutler…
Thames Valley Texas: poems and songs from Normal Town
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…
NORMAL TOWN POET
My hometown of Didcot, Oxon (formerly Berks) was identified as the most normal town in the U.K. according to the BBC and researchers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39428314.amp? Which makes me a Normal Town Poet…. More to follow…
WICKERLAND: poetry as middle class lifestyle choice
WICKERLAND? It’s like MOTHERLAND but without the humour..more AMANDA writes poetry…..god help us all. The above states chance to talk about real things like connection, love ,loss, creativity, purpose…. thats so nice not fake things like Iran, Gaza, Ukraine…at least it makes Class War seem so less futile.. IF THIS IS POETRY then POETRY IS…
SUBSTITUTE: Poems 2023-25
This pamphlet collects together all the poems written since my ‘re-birth’ in the font of poetry at Open Book. I have to thank Neil Fulwood for splashing the Eu de Blue Monkey on my face and waking me up to the possibility that poetry was not dead in Nottingham…well not yet. I have come to…
Ten Books I Love
I accepted a challenge from Neil Fulwood on facebook to post ten books that I love, one book per day, no explanations, no reviews, just the covers. The idea is to promote good books, encourage reading and create a wonderful reading list. Here my 10 as posted and explanations of why chosen. This book is…
LAST FARMER – Pamphlet 2010 : free pdf download
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…
DIESEL ON GRAVEL – 1986-1989 First Flash Fictions
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…
Thames Valley Texas
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/