I've performed at many venues, including the South Bank Centre, The Horse Hospital, Sub-Voicive, RASP, Angels of Fire, Oxford Poetry Festival, St Augustine's Tower, Pendle Witch Camp, Hay Poetry Jamboree and the London Musicians Collective, plus universities, schools and colleges. In London I've appeared at the Blue Bus, Virtual Futures and Corroding the Now, while in the East Sussex area I've performed at the Electric Palace, Coastal Currents, Short Fuse, Hastings Fringe, Sheer Poetry, Sheared Wit, Kino Teatr, The Book Maker and Hi Zero. I am a member of Letchworth Writers and North Hertfordshire Poetry ID and have taken part in local readings I have also given talks in London and elsewhere on various esoteric topics. If you're interested in setting up an event, contact me.
I have collaborated with Adrian Lord and Stephen Rigg on The Terror of Our Ways a feature-length film script for Blackdog Productions, an independent production company in the North of England. Adrian and I have also developed Adam Kadmon, Kabbalistic Detective and Black Sunrise as projects for TV. As well as preparing a collection of short fiction, a new poetry collection and developing the Quantum Brothers' operations, I'm have completed a new novel, Dream Clips of the Archons. An extract is now on line at The Mechanics Institute Review, while another another sequence from it won first prize in the short story category of the Hastings Literary Festival Competition 2019. The complete book is now available. A new novel Remote Sensing has now been completed and awaits publication. I have also completed a radio play The Enemy of TIme, about Vorticist artist and writer Wyndham Lewis.
I'm very pleased to be en the passenger manifest for UNAUTHORISED DEPARTURES. Fellow story-telling travellers: Maxim Jakubowski, James Goddard, Hunter Liguore, Rhys Hughes, David Quantick, Paul A. Green, Ana Teresa Pereira, Tom Frick, Eugen Bacon, Lawrence Russell, Andrew Hook, Lyle Hopwood, Elana Gomel, D. Harlan Wilson, David Paddy, Andrew Frost, Don MacKay, and Paul H. Williams. You can order it direct from The Terminal Press or via Amazon.
A sequence from my short fiction Out Takes From a Lost Planet was featured on March 28 on Rob Jelly's Upload programme. It's a platform for poetry, short fiction and spoken word on BBC Local Radio across Eastern England.
I'm pleased to have work in this latest anthology from Poetry ID who meet at the Settlement in Letchworth. It's being launched on June 20 at David's Bookshop in Letchworth. Special thanks to David Birkett and David Smith for editing and promoting the book.