Local Boys Done Good is a documentary/live show about five poets (all from the poetry collective Aisle16) going back to their home towns and putting on crap gigs. It was written by myself, Chris Hicks, John Osborne, Joe Dunthorne, and Tim Clare (pictured here, reading a poem to 5 people in a town hall in [...]

I made this for my upcoming run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August. For full details, check here.

Thanks to my mum and dad for being such a competent and professional film crew. It was a tough set to work on but they came through with the goods in the end. Mum is Urusevsky to my [...]

My first poetry collection, Things To Do Before You Leave Town, got a lovely review recently on Todd Swift’s Eyewear blog, courtesy of Mr Chris Horton. Eyewear is a great online journal and I thoroughly recommend it. Always new & interesting poems, reviews, opinion pieces. Its a good place for poets to go and argue. Also [...]

Hello. These photos are taken from a couple of events I did recently in London.  The first one is Tongue-Fu at Rich Mix cinema on Bethnal Green Road, where I’m performing alongside the incredible Tongue-Fu band. The extremely red room is PoeJazzi at Last Days of Decadence on Shoreditch High Street. These two venues are [...]

The other book I have coming out in September is an e-book, which I will be publishing myself through this site (and selling free through iTunes as well).

It’s a collection of twelve sonnets, each one inspired by a different character from Street Fighter 2. Each sonnet is being illustrated by a different artist, including work [...]

That’s right. The first is a pamphlet of approximately 15 poems, coming in a limited edition cardboard box (genuine cardboard) with a series of snazzy postcards. This is part of a new series of pamphlets published by Penned in the Margins, the first of which (Bonjour Tetris by Simon Barraclough) is released today.

The title is still [...]

My one-man show, The Three Stigmata of Pacman, picked up some great reviews during its London run in January. I’m chuffed to say that the show is now being revived north of the border, for a four week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. I am CRAZY STOKED.

Here’s the press release:
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This month sees the return of a new season of Homework: our regular night of literary miscellany at Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club. Featuring resident writers Tim Clare, John Osborne, Luke Wright, Chris Hicks, Joe Dunthorne and myself.

Our first event is this Wednesday, 26th of May, 8:00, £5 in. For directions to the venue, check BGWMC’s [...]

I was on BBC Radio 3 on Friday night, for a live edition of The Verb with Ian McMillan, Sophie Hannah, Attila the Stockbroker and poet/afrobeat collective Benin City. Despite having lost my voice two days before, I managed to claw back 80% of it with the aid of Sanderson’s Throat Specific Mixture- recommended to me [...]