Here’s a short poem I wrote. 2B Or Not 2B 2B or not 2BThat is the pencilWhether it is Nobblier in the line toScuff the springs and marrowsOf outmoded pictorial representation,Or to take snaps upon the digital?To sketch up the dawn of a rosy hueOr to take lines of sea and rubbleAnd by Photoshopping them, […]
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Here’s a short poem I wrote. 2B Or Not 2B 2B or not 2BThat is the pencilWhether it is Nobblier in the line toScuff the springs and marrowsOf outmoded pictorial representation,Or to take snaps upon the digital?To sketch up the dawn of a rosy hueOr to take lines of sea and rubbleAnd by Photoshopping them,
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I’m in this mesmerising and disturbing short film made in St Ives by my friend Paul Healy. Receiving Paul’s cheery little movie, Dream Seller, on the day the Mayans said the world would end, is most appropriate as it speaks of the End of Things. Paul has captured a powerful atmosphere and imbued it with
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Aaargh! Press, a new Brit alternative small press, is celebrating its birth with a party in London next month to mark the publication of its first titles, Reaching for my Gnu by Anna Chen (Kindle eBook and paperback) and The Guitar Geek Dossier by Charles Shaar Murray (Kindle eBook only for now). Reaching for my
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Had a lovely time tonight at the Occupied Friern Barnet Library. Thanks to Phoenix, Barbara Gordon, Poppy, Angel MC, all the acts and everyone who packed out the place, proving how wonderful a community hub can be. I hadn’t realised that the library is the last public space in Friern Barnet, so the philistine decision
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I’m delighted to be performing poetry for a great cause tonight: the Save Friern Barnet Library cabaret. Charles Shaar Murray is accompanying me on guitar, and there’s a long line-up of talent from 7.30pm. Since the Tory coalition government (which few voted for) grabbed power with the help of their Lib Dem human shields, the
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