Carlos Moore is the official biographer and friend of the late great Fela Kuti. We met in November 2010 at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg where Carlos showed me the facsimile of the legal action Read more [...]

Board coup leads to chaos in poets corner proclaims the London evening standard’s diary on June 7th. But much of their article is factually incorrect. It says 'The poetry society has just lost Read more [...]

I've spent the past five days as poet in residence at Grassington Festival in the Yorkshire Dales. My time has been used well. I gave three performances. One at an ecumenical service, one at the theatre, Read more [...]

I'm artist in residence at Grassington Festival. Been here a few days in the heart of The Yorkshire Dales, prime beef producing country and its burger night in the village. At 5pm I’m there Read more [...]

Grassington. Church is part of the community and I am artist in residence of the community festival so when the David Macha, the vicar of Grassington asked if I would read at the Ecunemical service at Read more [...]

Grassington. Today I gave a workshop for fifteen budding Grassington writers and they have decided to start a Grassington Writers Group. In the evening I experience a moving site specific show by Read more [...]

It was dusk. I’d been in the village of Grassington for just ten minutes when sat outside The Devonshire talking to Charlotte I saw over her shoulder up main st outside The Foresters Arms a young Read more [...]

Kings cross at 6.30pm is angry and Euston is seething. They are sister and brother from the wrong side of the tracks, as they like to say. They have a twisted love for each other. And to suffocate their Read more [...]

The thing about being an artist is that some periods are spent alone craving company and other periods are spent in crowds craving privacy. That’s one way of looking at it. The other way is this. Some Read more [...]

The cycle chain slides into the teeth of the cog. Wednesday. East. West. South. North London. I’m standing in The centre of The Angel’s Paperchase looking at fifteen identical 2011 diaries which Read more [...]