Categories

Advice

• 30 things I don't know at 30

Art

• Uncertain 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

• Escape into Another World

Creativity

• Art as Play
• Writing Every Day
• 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

• Communion
• Existential Horror Disco
• The Tides of Time
• Upgraded
• Towards the Light
• Free Fall
• Half Awake
• Falling Ash
• Hiding in Embers
• Fragments of Cloud Speech
• Gathering
• Beautiful Entropy
• Shaped by Ghosts
• Dream Days
• Obscured
• Journal entry
• Clarity
• Guide Me Home
• Emerald Swell
• Free From Distortion
• The Power of Disco
• 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

• March 2021 Recommended
• February 2021 Recommended
• 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

• Productivity in a Crisis
• All change
• Time's gone weird
• Reasons to stay at home

Podcasts

• We're here

Poetry

• Cartography
• Rustle
• Thanks, Autocorrect
• The early bird catches the worm
• Do we get political now?
• Unprecedented
• Generative
• Dawn Ritual
• Pixels
• Count Down to Infinity
• The Date
• 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

• No Neutral Stories
• 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: Stuart Buck
• Red Ink: Elizabeth McGeown
• Red Ink: Ankh Spice
• 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

• Theatre and the Art of the Possible

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

• Guest Blogs
• Taking a Break

Writing

• The Power of Interlinking
• Never Finishing
• 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

Zines

• Serenity Study zine
• Quarranzine