Introduction: ‘Scenes from a Missing Childhood’ is based on the author’s experience of growing up in London during the blitz; it consists of a sequence of short prose poems depicting screen memories associated with the V2 bombs, his being sent away from home as an 18 month old baby to his grandmother in South Wales and the subsequent return. These pieces seek to create a … [Read more...] about Scenes From A Missing Childhood
Between Prospect And Refuge
BETWEEN PROSPECT AND REFUGE This is a series of poems that explore the hinterland of commonplace experience from the vantage point of the ‘other scene’ and across a range of idioms and genres. There are love poems, poems of separation and loss, narrative poems, concrete poems and comic verse, and poems occasioned by the impress of landscapes and seascapes, or particular … [Read more...] about Between Prospect And Refuge
March Blog
Strange Intimacies : socialising the media or mediatising sociality? For the last six months I have been in almost daily contact with my editors at Lawrence Wishart and Five Leaves about matters arising from books of mine they are publishing. The relationship that has developed between us has been an intense, occasionally stressful, but ultimately very rewarding … [Read more...] about March Blog
Body Politics
This gallery of 120 images in Body Politics contains the following sections: Elemental Labour-Mummers, miners and sweeps Time and Motion Studies-Automata Youth culture and extreme sport Physical culture and the dream of the collective body Masculinity and manual labour in a post industrial world. It is designed to support ‘On the wrong Side … [Read more...] about Body Politics
The Key Players In London 2012
A list of some of the key players in the London Summer Olympics can be found here: Key Players … [Read more...] about The Key Players In London 2012