It is National Care Leavers Week. I’ve said before that Harry Potter was a foster child. His status (as fostered child) has spread like wildfire since then. He’s one of us. Read more [...]
I'm not taking the piss. April 2017 was 100th anniversary of “Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp. I was commissioned, to interpret Fountain in any way I wanted so I superimposed my social services files Read more [...]
From London to Hong Kong. Hong Kong to Brisbane.I snivel and cough my way over the tectonic fault lines of planet earth. 24 hours later Bill the driver meets me and the famous Haigh family at Brisbane Read more [...]
I've been Canterbury's Poet Laureate for twelve months of a thirty six month residency. Thanks to Wise Words Festival and The Marlowe Theatre. The laureateship started in May 2017 with Warrior Poets, Read more [...]
Throughout 2018 I have been working with young people in care in Coventry. Its been a highly secretive project until now. The culmination, the high point, is a live performance, by the young people Read more [...]
Let's start this on the on Wednesday,June 6th at The Ethiopian Embassy in London. Thursday 7th June at 11am I travel from London to Manchester. At 2pm I’m in Castlefield, the Read more [...]
Two weeks back I received four complimentary tickets for the opening ceremony of The Great Exhibition of The North. I’ll be performing my Anthem for The North, from the bridge in the photo above, Read more [...]
Hello. I am one of five judges for The Golden man Booker Prize this year. It is a special one-off award to celebrate 50th anniversary of The Man Booker Prize and crowns the best work of fiction from Read more [...]
Time is like the weather system. It has patterns, storm seasons with electric charges. Memory. The arctic wind brushes a molten sun making of it a golden drop of frozen gold. Breath beats the window Read more [...]
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will marry at St George’s Chapel in Windsor today so I think I will write Meghan a letter. Dear Meghan, Hope you're well and congratulations. There's another Read more [...]