Hello my name is Ross. I am a poet and a journalist, based in the UK.
My debut poetry collection, Things To Do Before You Leave Town, was published this January by Penned in the Margins. You can buy it here.
I have also been published in Rising, Reactions 3, Tears in the Fence and the NME. My commission work has included London Science Museum, the Institute for The Future of the Book, ADIDAS and the BBC.
I am currently developing a full-length science fiction film with Warp X.
I am also a member of the poetry collective Aisle16, with whom I run Homework, a monthly night of literary miscellany in East London, at Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club. Homework is our scratch night for developing new poems and live-literature productions.
To date, I have co-written nine live literature productions. Much of my live literature work tries to combine poetry, stand-up comedy and multimedia visual. I spend a lot of time collaborating with illustrators, animators and short film-makers, and have produced some of the most complicated Powerpoint presentations this side of the Square Mile. You can see some of my films here on this website, or the whole portfolio is available on my YouTube page.
My first major theatre production was in 2005, with Aisle16’s Poetry Boyband. Boyband played in over 200 venues across the UK and won us Time Out’s Critic’s Choice of the Year. Since then, my shows have included a travelogue of British service stations (commissioned by John Betjeman’s estate), a series of eulogies for fictional characters (my directorial debut, commissioned by Monkfish Productions), a poetry show inspired by video games and another about me and my friends trying to blag our way into the illusive French writing movement, the OULIPO. Some of these shows are still available to book.
I have just completed my first solo show, The Three Stigmata of Pacman, For more information, looky here.
You can download a PDF copy of my poetry CV here.
Interviews
Here’s an interview I did for my good friend Tim Clare on his Cone O’Tragedy Blog
Here’s one I did with CityLife magazine in Manchester
Here’s one I did with Chaucer in Litro
Press
You can download a massive version of my face here. (Photo by Will Ireland)
And a picture of me rocking out with Pacman here. (Photo by Ben Martin)