2009 was a great year for poetry performance, so the challenge to top it is definitely on ( Read more... )

Just a quick shout-out to say that Friday's Poetry Kapow was a handsomely-dressed bunch of poetry fun. Thanks to our open-mic poets, featured artists, contributors of STUFF, light and sound and bar-folk, documentors, fortune-teller (!), and other willing punters and participants. Video and audio recording will be available soon. Thanks to ( Read more... )

has been incredibly busy with moving house (our postcode doesn't even exist yet in some companies info. Try ordering a pizza from a new housing estate and you'll understand my pain) and planning and executing my Edinburgh adventure. Just 8 days of solid show-watching, drinking and walking VERY quickly across a mountainous city can be surprisingly ( Read more... )

it's proving a bit of a prolific one (at last) with 2 new poems for Bardcore @ Stony Live ("Poetry from the back end of The Bull" see what we did there?) and hopefully a new little treat for Raising the Awen in Northampton tonight ( Read more... )

So it's the week of paid gigs and success for some of my dearest loved ones, with poet buddy Mark Niel being paid to strut his stuff on Sunday (he kept his kit on this time though, much to Carla's disappointment!) and doing a rather fine job of it; Thursday, sees the lovely fayroberts* performing her own brand of performance verse supporting Billy ( Read more... )

( it's been an eventful few days.... )

Since Poetry Kapow, I haven't been resting on my laurels, oh no! The gloriously anarchic, friendly and fun Raising the Awen in Northampton last night continued to provide a regular event for us to descend upon. With New Poetic Friends Lionel (he of the polemically political persuasion) and Carla (funny, lyrical, thoughtful... her pomes quite good ( Read more... )

Sometimes, there are those days where nothing quite goes right, your timing goes awry, people let you down or perhaps you just disappoint yourself with your efforts. And just occasionally, crazy ideas work out just fine, everything's ready on time, people exceed expectations with their generosity and talent, and you kick yourself for ever doubting ( Read more... )

Hopefully off to "Word" at the Y theatre in Leicester tonight to see a couple of great poets (including Rob Gee, of whom I am a bit of a fan) although have a sore throat and the weather outside is frightful, so it might not be a bad idea to give it a miss. More worried about long-suffering poet colleagues... Hopefully I'll be back up to ass-kicking ( Read more... )

well it's proved a fun and eventful year so far. Korg is still a great place to be, lots of extra product training coming in very handy! Tongue in Chic was an awesome night, I've never seen so many people at a poetry event, and in our gorgeous little Madcap theatre too! The next one's in 2 weeks, but there have been loads of other poetry happenings ( Read more... )