Blog Posts
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Beyond Measure – Poetry from the Woods
I write on National Poetry Day with a link to the online exhibition for the Beyond Measure Project. My audio poem ‘The Force of their Lives’ was one of ten Cultural Institute commissions created for the exhibition. It is an experimental piece and best listened to with headphones and eyes closed. You can listen here…
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Second Draft of a Novel, Zoom Event and the Yaffle Prize
These two pea plants start off in separate pots but entangle as they grow whilst retaining their roots. The protagonists in my novel do the same thing.
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WITNESS, JONATHAN KINSMAN
The style of the poetry pamphlet witness is reminiscent of Oswald’s Book of Hours by Steve Ely. Ely forges Anglo Saxon legend, medieval English and Biblical language with contemporary characters from West Yorkshire: Kinsman reimagines the stories of the apostles as 21st century people living in Britain. There is a portrait poem here for each…