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Handmade Poems and Objects
Radio
Essays, criticism & reviews
 
Handmade Poems and Poem-Objects
One of my interests is the overlap between poetry and visual art. I have made and exhibited a few poem-objects in the form of papier-maché bowls and painted eggboxes.
 
I collaborated with the artist Sally Davies on "Clear Sky" Anticyclone: Winter published in Leisure Centre Issue 8 and moves outwards, an artist's book project for the Study Gallery.
 
I made an illuminated poem in celebration of William Blake's 250th. You can find out about the anthology in which it's printed here.
 
London Word Festival commissioned a series of postcard poems from 4 poets living in 4 European cities. The resulting collaboration is partially documented at the Permanent Tourist blog and hopefully scans of all the postcards will be online soon.
 
Radio
I was an occasional presenter of Penned in the Margins, a weekly radio show on London's Resonance 104.4fm (Show currently off air)
Past guests and topics included:
10 Dec 06 - Anthony Joseph
12 Nov 06 - Poetry and conflict; Andrea Brady and Chris McCabe
1 Oct 06 - Edmund Hardy and John Muckle
3 Sep 06 - Ethnopoetics; Michael Mellor
 
I co-wrote The Great Caravaggio's Travelling Circus, broadcast on BBC 7 as part of the Witty and Twisted season.
 
Essays, Criticism & Reviews
I have written reviews on:
Contemporary art for Studio International
Poetry for Intercapillary Space and Terrible Work
 
Plus:
A note on some lines by Rachel Blau Duplessis for London Poetry Systems (Apr 08)
A short argument, 'What poetry is and can be', for Culture Wars (Nov 07)
A response to Peter Riley's Alstonefield for Intercapillary, again. (Oct 07)
An essay round and about A DeTour for Issue 8 of Poetics.ca
A micro-essay, 'Poems on walls and poems in water', for Issue 4 of Creature Mag