Empires of Clay

  • Changing Diaries

    If you switch off when writers start talking about how they fill their diaries then do click off the screen now. If you’re still here – hello and happy New Year! I’m going to start by returning to 2016. With regards to writing, that year was an exciting one for me. There was the release…

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  • Not the right sort of voice

    In 2014 I recorded two of my poems for poetry films.  The Bristol-based film-maker Pru Fowler did a stunning job and we launched the films twice, once in her city and once in Leeds. Paisley Quilt was shown and reviewed on the Moving Words website and, since making it available online, we received many positive…

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  • EMPIRES OF CLAY LAUNCH

      The launch of my first full poetry collection Empires of Clay began dramatically with a text from my publisher Jan Fortune of Cinnamon Press to say that she had been knocked over at York train station and had injured her leg. Fortunately she wasn’t badly hurt but she would be unable to compere the…

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  • On the publication of my first poetry collection and why I’m too stubborn to pick one form or genre and stick to it

    A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson     Come November 2016 my poems will live, not just in small gatherings at spoken word gigs or in anthologies, magazines and websites but en masse within a real paper and print…

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