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…
Month: March 2024
Poetry Reviewing again after 30 years!
Back in 1996 at the height of my poetry career (in Scotland not here!) I reviewed for the great Lines Review I not seen this in years but here a John Glenday and Richard Price review. I posting as I starting to get my pencils sharpened for some more reviewing after a break of 30…
MY FATHER’S THINGS – Poems for Ivo Charles Belcher
I produced an illustrated sequence of poems for my father in 2019. This April 13th he would have been 92 had he lived but he has been gone 20 years now. As a tribute I have created a pdf of the sequence that was shown as a series of artworks at the King Billy. Below…
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…
NEW SHORT STORY BLOG: SHORT CUTS
In the mid 1980s I worked at a Tottenham Lane public library which had a small fire and books were smoke damaged and to be binned. I salvaged and still own a hardback copy of Fires as above by Raymond Carver. Then I considered myself a Carveresque poet rather than a short story writer. In…