This is an ongoing project I just started and will take time to complete. I began writing poetry in my hometown of Didcot in 1981-2 after a few perfunctory ‘poetry’ lectures at Hornsey College of Art introduced me to Larkin, Heaney and Hughes. Then a slightly tipsy Adrian Mitchell joined us under a tree in…
Writing Poetry on an Old Laptop
I have descaled, decluttered..dissolved my old Sony Viao laptop back to basics literally. It has Xubuntu on and basically set up like a basic wordprocessor or electric typewriter of the early 1990s. I also set all type to run courier so looks like typewriter text. More imortantly it ‘OFF GRID’ cannot really run other shit…
The Greenwash Recycle
THE GREENWASH RECYCLE Starts in a marketing agency hand-out around the milleniumSocial demarcation and quantifying statistics showed newer markets More social class segmentation and new science of social media metricsIdentified new opportunities to market directly to the A B and C groups Especially those spending more time at home, the newly affluent mothersWork from homers…
Fake Farmers
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…
The Dead Poet
#NaPoWriMo # 3: Mallory’s Camera
#NaPoWriMo WTF
I had never heard of this acronym until my mate and fellow poet Neil Fulwood revealed it to me and a poem (pretty damn good one) too. Basically the UK Poetry Society being about ten years behind evrybody else has copped a write a poem every day in April meme from the rest of the…
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…
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…