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Published by Renscombe Press:
Ex Chaos (May 2006)
A DeTour (November 2006)
 
Published by Penned in the Margins:
Generation Txt (December 2006)
(Reviews at Stride Magazine and Gists and Piths)
 
Published by Bow of Burning Gold:
The William Blake Birthday Book (November 2007)
An anthology to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Blake's birth.
Over 60 contributors made one illuminated page each.
 
Odd poems on the web:
Two poems at Great Works
Two poems at Intercapillary Space
Two poems at Openned
 
Recordings:
A selection of poems recorded for the Archive of the Now (June 08) - you need to click on 'Authors'.
Alex Pryce recorded a few poems on the Generation Txt tour. Go to poetcasting.co.uk to listen to them. (June 07)
 

Ex Chaos
This book is a collaboration between me and my mother, a series of 8 poems and 8 paintings based on Japanese creation myths. The primary source material for the poems is Basil Hall Chamberlain's 1883-1906 translation of the Kojiki, the 'Records of Ancient Matters' first written around 712 CE. The poems also collage, quote and misquote traditional and modern Japanese poetry, sound-symbolic words, and my experience of living in Japan. My mother's paintings incorporate the gestural shapes of kanji characters and reference the colour schemes of the Buddhist temples of Kyoto and the Shinto shrines in Miyajima and Tokyo.
Ex Chaos, 36 pages inc 8 colour reproductions. £10 plus p+p.
Orders and enquiries:
Some of the poems and paintings
A review of Ex Chaos at Culture Wars
A review of Ex Chaos at Stride Magazine
 

A DeTour
A DeTour is a series of hand-printed postcard poems, based on Daniel Defoe’s A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-27). The poems cut up and rework selections from Defoe’s book, reformulating his words into fictitious ‘Postcards from…’ various locations around the UK.
If you would like to subscribe to the postcards, please send me an email with your postal address. For £4.50, you will receive 8 postcards through the door at the rate of one every few days.
A DeTour, 8 postcard poems (Limited edition of 100). £4.50 inc p+p.
Orders and enquiries: as above.
A review of A DeTour at Intercapillary Space