✍️Writer-in-Res Saul Hay Gallery & Ilkley Lit Fest & Victoria Baths🌟@PoetryBookSoc Selections 2022 & 2023📚Wanderland (Red Ceilings Press) now available!
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Old Twitter was great, but as of 2026, I am no longer active here on X. Instead you can find me mostly on Instagram, often on Facebook, sporadically on Bluesky and hardly ever on LinkedIn for updates and to keep in touch.
📚TODAY! If you’re in Manchester (Saturday, 4pm), it would be dead good to see you at the 50th Peter Barlow’s Cigarette – 50th, blimey! Amazing readers: Frances Presley, Jeremy Over and David Gaffney. Oh, and *cough* me. Free as well and the venue is ace – bring your pocket money
As Greenpeace instals a large Kapoor artwork on platform ‘Skiff’, I think I’ll include my poem “Oil Platforms (The North Sea)”, commissioned by the modernist magazine, in my set for next Tuesday’s reading, 7.30pm, Saul Hay Gallery. It is a lament for nature, and a study of rigs.
I've been wanting to get down a few thoughts on the process of creating my most recent collaborative work, with Carolyn Hashimoto for European Poetry Festival, and I've finally done it... wordsandfixtures.blogspot.co…
My latest Creative Tourist Literature Guide round-up features plenty of one-off live literature events to wrap your ears about, so get those diaries ticking over… creativetourist.com/literatu…
Sunday, Liverpool, @europepoetfest – you should come along. It’s free, and myself and Carolyn have got a proper treat lined up. 🌀🌀🌀
Made up to have had my work picked for the inaugural Didsbury Arts Festival Summer Open from some 300 or so entries by Manchester artists. My piece is a concrete poetry triptych collectively called “Rivers”. This year’s exhibition runs 1-19 July at The Didsbury Parsonage.
📚 ☕️ 🥂 Looking forward to this new spoken word night at Cafe Blah next Friday. Write-up here… creativetourist.com/event/je…
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A great article @creativetourist about our final event of this summer's festival @OpenEyeGallery in Liverpool! Sunday 6th at 3pm @zimZalla @stephensunderla @gravkapell @wordsnfixtures Lena Chilari, Thomas Ballhausen @msuttonwriter @DavidSpittle7 @mccabio creativetourist.com/event/eu…
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The European Poetry Festival 2025, program announced! June 18th to July 6th, over 100 poets. Free Camarade events, all here, mark your diaries. Our poster designed by @babaksafari777 europeanpoetryfestival.com/2…
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REOPENING: Withington favourite Café Blah has announced its return, seven months after the team were forced to close their doors...
manchesterwire.co.uk/cafe-bl…
TODAY, I’m off to Frodsham to read the entire ‘Flight Patterns’ sequence from my latest poetry book “Wanderland”, complete with birdsong I recorded yesterday afternoon, along with other aural and visual treats. Weaver Words Literature Festival, 2.30pm weaverwords.org.uk/local-wri…
Next weekend, I'll be back in Frodsham, the town where I went to high school – sharing some more wandering and pondering from "Wanderland" at Weaver Words Literature Festival, 2.30pm, Saturday 10 May, get tickets at this link, be great to see you! weaverwords.org.uk/local-wri…
How is it May tomorrow? How have we done four months of 2025 already? A third of the year? To mark the occasion, I have updated my live dates page, so here you go – first off the blocks, the annual Peter Barlow’s Cigarette open mic jamboree this evening… wordsandfixtures.blogspot.co…
Super pleased that the two long poems I was commissioned to write last year for performances at Stockport Stories and Tootally Wired (pictured) have a new lease on life and have been accepted for publication and will be out in print very soon.
Two weeks today! Hometown performance for acclaimed poet at Weaver Words Literature Festival… see you in Frodsham! The magical land of Spit The Dog! And Daniel Craig! And yes, I did go to school with Gary Barlow! 💅weaverwords.org.uk/local-wri…
TOMORROW! This time tomorrow, the nerves will be kicking in... An evening of readings at Saul Hay Gallery to celebrate the launch of Wanderland, with Scott Thurston & Lydia Unsworth – expect delicious writing morsels, tasty kinepoetics and some tempting Oulipian collaboration.
🪶📚🚀THIS THURSDAY! I'd love it if you'd pop along and welcome Wanderland worldwards! It's the official launch of my new book, 7pm at Saul Hay Gallery, free, and joining the party to help me celebrate are guest readers Scott Thurston and Lydia Unsworth. eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun…
