Poetry Prose

Moments

Still time, just (until the end of today), to submit a proposal for a monologue / dual person spoken word performance piece on the theme of ‘moments’. I have submitted something (not 100% sure it’s right, but we will see). Meant to post this earlier in the week, but I’ve been away at a future tech industry summit. Much more enjoyable and interesting than it might sound!

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Poetry Prose

The Front Room Part 3

I promised to share the other prose piece I read at the Front Room on Thursday. My first career was in advertising. I used to sell recruitment ad space in Computer Weekly, out of their offices in Sutton, when I lived in a horrendous bedsit in Croydon. More on that another time perhaps. The original version of this is at least ten years old. I’ve reworked it over time, and now I think I’m finally…

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Music Prose Random Ramblings

A Band You’ve Probably Never Heard Of…Yet.

I hope your weekend is going well. I’m a bit tired. Got home from a concert in London at 3 AM this morning. I went to see a band called The Heavy North, at The Old Blue Last, a pub (and former brothel apparently!) in Shoreditch But I’m OK with this kind of tiredness. I used to live my life in a perpetual state of exhaustion. I spent so many of my early years in…

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Poetry Prose

Poems Page Updated

I’ve just added a prose piece to my poems page – it first appeared on the Interstellar Literary Review website back in 2021. It’s one of a long sequence of prose poems / flash fiction work that should be published next year. It was my first acceptance from a United States based magazine – another little goal I set myself accomplished! Three Car Incident at Twyford Down And so we wait. Strangers together in stationary…

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Prose

Straight in From the Sahara

Apparently a sandstorm is on its way to the UK from the Sahara. Storm Celia is expected to hit southern Britain later today or tomorrow. This news reminded me of a prose piece I wrote a few years ago, following a similar event. It’s part of a pamphlet / book length sequence of flash fiction / prose poems which I am hoping to publish later this year, or early next. This is the only place…

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