Author Archives: lateralgpoet

That’s the first of July.  Loads of my poetry mates! 😊

I’ll be back in the gazebo outside The Sair again on 12th July at Linthwaite Leadboilers Festival.  It’s a brilliant local free festival.  My personal highlights have to be the dog show and the race to carry a hay bale up the impossible hill.  Well worth watching.  Come along!

Fantastic slam, excellent poetry and performances all round.  Other than Hudds, I wasn’t planning to do any slams this year, but now I feel inspired again.  I do love a slam!

Did a few open mics last week – here’s proof!  Bagged a gig for October… Would quite like some more! PTB again

I am gradually snipping individual poems out of this set, and putting them up on YouTube/the videos section of this website.  But here’s one for anyone who is thinking of booking me, and can’t be bothered to go looking on the videos page. It’s a bit dark and occasionally goes out of focus – IContinue reading “Planting Seeds”

What a lovely evening!  I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.  A proper warm hug of a night.  Massive thanks to Flapjack Press for having me.

I returned to the UK, did a little live poetry in cool places and submitted or applied for lots of stuff as part of my 100 rejections challenge.  Which will go on all year, possibly into next year.  But it’ll keep me busy.