Scotland in our Eyes Art Exhibition

I'm pleased to announce that I'll be reading four new poems at the private view on Friday 1st August and subsequent evening of Scotland in our Eyes Art Exhibition that have been written especially for the event.

I've been collaborating with artist, Constantine Anjulatos, who has created artworks from my poems.  This has been a very interesting process for me to ensure that the images in the poems stand out and Constantine has done a terrific job of translating these into his artworks.

The exhibition runs from 1st to 8th August at the Crown Court Church of Scotland in Russell Street, London WC2B 5EZ.

Hope to see you there!

Hubbub 30 June 2014

My last reading as a current student of the creative writing BA at Birkbeck's performance event, Hubbub, reading three of my latest poems, First Love, From Co-op to Volcano and In the Cool Silence.  Have a listen ...

Photo by Constantine Anjulatos

Birkbeck Publishing Project, Launch of 45 Square Poetry Journal

Our final project of Birkbeck's Creative Writing BA course was a publishing project.  As fate would have it, I was Editor of the poetry journal, 45 Square.  We weren't allowed to submit poems for our own journal which was a shame.  However, this meant that we dedicated more time to the project, and much time was needed!!

Here's Assistant Editor, Tarquin Landseer, and I with our cover artist, Karina Vettorel at her University of East London degree show

plus the moment of truth when the hard copies arrived by courier.  

The next day was the launch event which was a highly polished and exciting evening held at Stratford Circus, a great culmination of a brilliant course!

Take a look at the website created for the journal by our Production Manager, Matteo Muscas.