The Master’s Tools: the poetry and perversion of control
Self-interview about Hot Cockalorum and its folklore, kink and animal familiars.
Poetry Society Then & Now video series
Video reading of ‘Namazu at the Physicist’s Funeral’ and ‘Benjamins’.
Two folklore poems in Gramarye Journal
If you like folklore and fairytales, critical thinking and art, investigate the journal Gramarye.
Why can’t artists admit they have jobs?
Most artist have a side hustle or a main hustle, and there’s no shame in it. Why are we so keen to be perceived as ‘pure’ artists, when such a beast seldom exists?
Alchemy: Why poetry publishers need to get it together
I wrote an article for BookMachine on the value of collaboration over competition in poetry publishing.
Poetry News gets vocal
I’m in Poetry News, published by the Poetry Society, talking about the links between voiceover and poetry.
New Year’s fear and Quantum Hotness
On quantum confidence, or why one day you’re The Shit and the next you’re just shit.
Play-poems and bardbots!
Advent is upon us, and we’ve been celebrating over at Sidekick Books! Every day we’ve opened a new window of poetry mishmashery, featuring: i) Hybardrid Twitterbots, mixing famous poets with other poets and other texts…
Poets Are So Excited – but does anybody care?
Social media is tricky for poets, but we need to stop hammering the “so excited” key, expecting it to excite others by osmosis.
What a piece of work: poetry and technophobia
The robots are here and they’re writing poetry. Beyond the outrage and scorn of human readers, could there be some work of interest?