Stress Fractures is a collection of new essays on poetry, published at the end of last year by Penned In The Margins. Its a really surprising and unusual book, and I think it does a great job of presenting a huge amount of ideas in a really entertaining way: Luke Kennard talks about Krazy Kat [...]

In the lead-up to new year, here’s a story I recently wrote for Radio Netherlands. Earth Beat is a great programme and I recommend dialling it into your DAB radio henceforth.

This week’s episode is called Things We Were Promised, and examines the art of predicting the future. I open the show with A Short Piece [...]

I’ve just been working with Mercy Design on some text art for the new Pedlars catalogue. Everything in the new collection is a collaboration between Pedlars and a series of old-school British brands.

I came up with the idea of connecting up famous quotations in order to create a strange dialogue between their authors. The end [...]

The Londonist is currently running a series of London-inspired poems. There’s been some great pieces so far (check out Kirsten Irving and John Osborne). I was at a bit of a loss, so I tried to use Google Streetview to help get me started. I just dropped the little man into the city at random and tried to [...]

This coming Tuesday (the 7th) I’m reading at the newly opened Ministry of Stories in Hoxton, alongside Robert Newman and Nick Hornby. Get tickets while they last.

A few videos from the last Homework of season 3. The event was based on the successful US storytelling night, The Moth. All true stories, told without notes. The theme of the night was ‘My Worst Gig.’

Chris Hicks: “The darkest hour is just before the dawn”

Johann Hari: “the Dalai Lama called me fat”

Ross Sutherland: “Do [...]

Here’s a few clips from September’s Homework event at Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club:

Back in July this year, I was part of the city-wide translation manhunt, The London Poetry Game. There’s an earlier post about the project here.

I was commissioned by Sarah Ellis (Apples and Snakes) and Alex Fleetwood (Hide and Seek) to write a new poem for the LPG project. Once the poem was finished, every line [...]

I’ve had a longstanding involvement with Liverpool live/art collective Mercy. When I lived in Liverpool at the start of the decade, I was the host of Fiction@FACT: a night of poetry/video collaborations at the art cinema, working alongside Mercy’s resident poet Nafe Jones.

Although now I’ve moved south, I always try to keep one hand in [...]