Events

A couple of forthcoming events below. Two killer line-ups...

Where Are We Now?

I can't wait to be part of this contribution to the celebration of Hull's summer as UK City of Culture, put together by the good people behind Neu! Reekie! with the aid of Caught by the River. It's a wonderful bill, and I'm honoured to be involved.

Full details here.

Havergey by John Burnside

I wrote a short review of one of John Burnside's many new books (all no doubt brilliant, the poems certainly are) for Caught by the River, should anyone fancy reading it...

http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2017/04/19/havergey-john-burnside-little-toller-will-burns-review/

Ty Newydd poetry course with Hollie McNish and Luke Wright

I'm well pleased to be teaching alongside the wonderful Hollie McNish on this residential course at the Ty Newedd Writing Centre in November. The course will be aimed at encouraging enjoyment of both writing and reading your poems. We will also have a guest reading from Luke Wright on one of the evenings. This will be a week spent in fine surroundings and fine company, with lots to learn and enjoy as we go.

Full details of the course here.

Battle of Ideas

I'll be appearing on a panel at The Barbican, as part of 2016's Battle of Ideas, to discuss various notions of independent and counter culture, the impact of Rough Trade on our sense of these things and, hopefully making a few contentious statements regarding the commodification of all this, using our seemingly insatiable thirst for nostalgia. Or something.

Anyway, check out the rest of the panel... there will be some seriously good stuff discussed, I'm sure. 

http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2016/session/12112#.V_4LnvArLct

Crossing Border

Well pleased to be appearing at this festival in November.

That's a seriously good line-up, can't wait...

http://crossingborder.nl/programma/

Ticket info here.

No Map Could Show Them review

Another good book I had the privilege of being asked to review for Caught by the River, this time Helen Mort's latest.

Read the review here.

Living in the World as If It Were Home review

I reviewed this wonderful, strange book, now published over here for the first time by the equally wonderful Corbel Stone Press, for Caught by the River, and you can read it here.

New Work on Wild Court

A month or two late flagging this on here, but I have two new poems up on the brilliant Wild Court site.

Seersucker is a tribute to the artist Robert Rubbish, and Kindness I Suppose takes its title from the great Townes Van Zandt.

These are two people everybody should know about-they help make things better.

Caught by the River Thames

Full line-up now confirmed...