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advice 1 art 2 book review 12 books 1 creativity 13 erasure poetry 42 films 5 link round up 12 music 5 photos 29 plague notes 4 podcasts 1 poetry 125 politics 17 publications 18 red ink 6 stories 15 television 3 theatre 1 this was meant to be the future 13 update 2 writing 11 year in review 10 zines 2
Posts by year
Advice
Art
- Suspend the outside world for a while: Thoughts on Glastonbury Festival
- Dispatches from the Uncanny Valley
Book review
- Recent Poetry Books I've Enjoyed
- Sharp Objects and genre blindspots
- Thoughts on 'Annihilation'
- Jerusalem, Ambition and the Power of Ideas
- 'Hope in the Dark' is more relevant than ever
- George Saunders and Normalisation
- Optimism, empathy and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
- 'The Shock Doctrine' and the Modern World.
- Free speech, Twitter and 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed'
- Always more to learn: Thoughts on 'Wonderbook'
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan- Book Review
Books
Creativity
- Inside my commonplace book
- Accidental plagarism
- Making the familiar strange
- No Such Thing as a 'True' Artist: Persistent Myths That Need To Be Retired
- The Sound of Silence
- What I learned on my break
- Step Away from the Internet
- Enduring art (Same as it ever was)
- Pulp vs. Perfection
- The importance of a creative routine
- 'Show Your Work!' Six weeks in
- The Work Never Stops
- Marbles and Creation
Erasure poetry
- Brighter Days Ahead
- Fuzz
- Sky Song
- A Breath
- In bloom
- Hibernating
- Helix
- Gradual
- Corruption
- Supernova
- Autumn
- Immerse
- Beyond
- Squall
- Half Life
- What we are made of
- Enclosed
- Half Awake
- Vibrations
- Silicone Song
- Underwater
- End of the Road
- Revelations
- Noise
- The end of an era
- Among the trees
- Upheaval
- Dark matter
- Whirl
- A hobby
- Inhale
- The clarity of winter
- Shore
- Early Swim
- Lunar
- Dive
- The crowd
- Rise
- Obscured
- Despite it all
- Illusion
- Newspaper Blackout Poems
Films
- Whiplash and the Dangerous Myth of the Suffering Artist
- The Ambiguity of Captain Fantastic
- Ponyo and Adaptation
- 'Birdman', Superhero Films and Spectacle
- Thoughts on 'High Rise'
Link round up
- January 2021 Links
- October 2020 Links
- September 2020 Links
- Assorted news and links
- November Link Round up
- October Link Round Up
- September Link Round up
- August bits and bobs
- July Links: Summer was on a Tuesday this year
- June Links - No Politics, I Promise
- May Link Round-up
- Links and Things I liked in April
Music
- Songs for November
- Nick Cave and music that is too difficult to listen to
- Just Walk Away: On Cynicism and Subjectivity
- Radiohead and the importance of letting ideas gestate
- Zaireeka and the live experience
Photos
- A View From a Bridge
- Skeleton Trees
- Winter Woods
- Doodles
- Korembi
- Costal walks
- Growing summer
- Summer is here
- May in the woods
- First crop of the year
- Inside
- Stillness
- Hello Spring
- Bristol light festival
- Never Change Bristol
- Skylight
- Plants
- Roots
- January sunset
- Bedminster Lantern Parade
- Merry Christmas Everyone
- A walk in the woods
- Christmas in Bemmie
- Unreal sunrise
- Reflections
- Art Vs. Reality
- Winter Fog
- Posters
- Railway lines
Plague notes
Podcasts
Poetry
- No one could have predicted this
- Circulation
- Six months from now
- We have seen things
- Rocket
- Show and Tell
- Missed Connection
- Silhouettes
- Off the Grid
- Masks
- Ocarina
- Awakening
- Condolences
- Virtual workshop and a poem
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 30- Burn
- Napwriomo 2020 Day 29- Fragment
- Napowrimo Day 28 - Guilt
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 27- Serenity Study
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 26- We Are Mostly Empty
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 25- Some Advice
- Napowrimo Day 24 - Ripples
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 23- Erasing
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 22- An Argument
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 21- Confessions
- Napowrimo day 20- Ritual
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 19- The Movement of Boulders
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 18 - The Return
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 17- Waiting
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 16 - Surface Tension
- Napowrimo 2020 day 15 - Late fees
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 14 - Modified
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 13 - Things that have lost their power
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 12- How to hear the hills
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 11 - Lies the television told me
- Napowrimo day 10- Prospects
- Napowrimo 2020 day 9 - Hollow Passengers
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 8 - Stagecraft
- Napowrimo 2020 day 7- No Trespassers Allowed
- Napowrimo 2020 day 6- Symmetry
- Napowrimo 2020 day 5 - Simulated
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 4- Erosion
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 4- Erosion
- Napowrimo 2020 Day 3 - Peas
- NaPowriMo 2020 Day 2 - 'I only went to a psychic for an ego boost'
- NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 1- The People
- The Oracle
- Resonance
- Complications
- Evening
- Tis the Season
- Brace brace brace
- Move fast and break things
- November
- Brand Ambassador
- How to Be Free
- Be quiet and listen
- NaPoWriMo Lessons
- Napowrimo 2019 day 30
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 29
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 28
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 27
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 26
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 25
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 23
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 22
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 21
- NaPoWriMo 2019- Day 20
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 19
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 18
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 17
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 16
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 15
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 14
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 13
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 12
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 11
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 10
- Napowrimo 2019 Day 9
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 8
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 7
- NaPoWriMo 2019 day 6
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 5
- Napowrimo 2019 Day 4
- Napowrimo 2019 Day 3
- Napowrimo 2019 Day 2
- NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 1
- Matter
- Hunted
- A haiku
- Upfest
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 30
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 29
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 28
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 27
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 26
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 25
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 24
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 23
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 22
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 21
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 20
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 19
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 18
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 17
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 16
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 15
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 14
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 13
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 12
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 11
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 10
- Napowrimo 2018 Day 9
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 8
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 7
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 6
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 5
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 4
- NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 3
- Napowrimo 2018 Day 2
- napowrimo 2018 Day 1
- At the End of NaPoWriMo
- NaPoWriMo Halfway through
- Jabberwocky Remixed
- Rediscovering poetry
- Feeding my writing through a digital shredder
Politics
- Call it what it is
- Statues continued
- Colston and the Myths of History
- Humans are more than money
- This election
- Ten Miserable Years of Austerity
- Signal Vs. Noise
- Battle of the Ages in the Election
- Everything is a story
- The New Religion of Brexit
- Alternative facts and the rule of misinformation
- Surveillance, the Investigatory Powers Bill and Remain Vigilant
- What does it matter?
- 'With us or against us': Brexit and The Daily Mail
- A short play not at all inspired by recent events
- Brexit and the story we have been told
- Love, not hate
Publications
- Me Me Me
- New micro pamphlet- Refraction
- Me Elsewhere
- Echoes and Edges Collaboration
- Some News
- Free Books
- Contributor copy
- Encrypted (video)
- These Poems are Not What They Seem
- On the radio
- Two poems of hope
- New poem at Highland Park Poetry
- New Book Announcement- Our Voices In The Chaos
- Recent Published Writing
- Lies, Dreaming
- White Noise
- Podcast
- Remain Vigilant
Red ink
- Red Ink: Liam Bates
- Red Ink: Pascal Vine
- Red Ink: Damien Donnelly
- Red Ink: Amanda Miller
- Red Ink: Pauline Sewards
- Red Ink: Barry Hollow
Stories
- 6 Ways to Promote Your Book
- Subject: My Demise
- Resolutions
- Flash Fiction: Reasons Why I Believe I Am Dying
- Flash Fiction: The Problems of Renting
- There is No Exit: Flash Fiction
- The Thief of Moons: Flash Fiction
- A Debate: Flash Fiction
- Oak Tree Manor: Flash Fiction
- Tourmaline: Flash Fiction
- Good Boy: Flash Fiction
- To Forbidden Passengers: Flash Fiction
- A Press Conference
- A report into the spread of M3W
- A Knock on the door
Television
- Making it up as you go: Twin Peaks and Welcome to Nightvale
- Distraction by Design: Observations on Television
- Stranger Things and the art of Pastiche
Theatre
This was meant to be the future
- Auld Lang Syne
- Technical Support
- Welcome to C-Mart
- The Garden
- Advert Break
- Into the Night
- The Sky is Damaged
- FCIC10
- A Response From the Black Box
- Truth Bombs
- Squeamish
- Sirens
- New serial book announcement- This Was Meant to be the Future
Update
Writing
- Hypergraphia
- Quick thoughts on editing
- Starting again
- Why Writers Should Exercise
- The Power of Paper
- Creative Anxieties: Fear of not writing enough
- Advice to Myself: Writing and Resolutions
- My accidental novel: Thoughts on first drafts
- A response to Laurie Gough
- Writing Fast and Sloppy
- On Writing and Publishing a Book
Year in review
- 2020: A Playlist
- So Long 2020
- 2019: books of the year
- 2019: year of contradictions
- Best of 2018
- 2018 in Review: A Poem
- Best of 2017
- 2017 in Review: Laughing at the Naked Emperor
- Best of 2016
- 2016: The Year the Internet took over