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It’s Independent Venues Week in Huddersfield. I’m having a busy week with Attic Stories tonight for pure poetry, then I will be doing my thing amongst music acts at Small Seeds on Tuesday and Northern Quarter on Thursday.  

This is a lovely monthly event, which starts with writing workshops, then an open mic. The format works really well: it’s nice to have something to do! Makes it much more fun. I am trying to keep better records of where I’ve been. It doesn’t always work for me to post things in advance, asContinue reading “Ink Spill @ The Head of Steam, 20th Jan”

This is fast becoming my favourite of the electronic open mics, because it is so eclectic: nothing is even similar to anything else.  Over the course of the evening, that creates a huge range of listening, from dance to electro acoustic and everything experimental between! This was my first outing of the new year, havingContinue reading “Technical Difficulties, 4th January.”

Let’s have some gratuitous truck and dog shots from earlier this week. Sunny now, but each day has been progressively colder in the mornings. I woke up to 3 degrees inside today, with the fire still warm and glowing! It’s been -4 outside every night this week up here. In temperatures like these, I’m inContinue reading “Brrr!”

Many thanks to Dave Walker for the photo.

This one has been going down well recently in live performance. I wrote it ages ago, but didn’t ever use it, because it’s about me being irritated by another poet – and not everybody can relate to that, surely? Turns out it’s actually describing a fairly universal situation, and one that everyone seems to haveContinue reading “Having Words Online”

A couple of days ago I asked someone for a gig, and realised that I haven’t been keeping any public records of performances since the odd random post sometime in June. So, rather than going over what I’ve done (can’t remember), here’s where you can find me doing bits in public in the run upContinue reading “Forthcoming stuff”

I am really pleased to be part of this. See me there, on the right-hand side? Can’t wait to read the others, either! These are limited edition, short runs and sell out very quickly, so if you want one, go to http://www.scumbagpress.co.uk

I am thrilled to have six short poems included in this leaflet, alongside Brian McGettrick, Carson Pytell, Kate Garrett, Niklas Stephenson amd Gwil James Thomas. Scumbag Press is an independent punk publisher. They also produce a zine called Paper and Ink, and a podcast of punk music and poetry. Check it out! https://www.facebook.com/scumbagpress https://www.facebook.com/PaperAndInkZine I’llContinue reading “I’m going to be in this!”