On October 11th at 6.30pm I will be upstairs in a Deli called Palm 2 in East London. It is the first meeting of The East London Christmas Dinner steering group. Please come. We'll be creating Read more [...]
DAY 1 August 29th Thursday Publication day.
I wake at The Malmaison in Piccadilly Manchester and send out my morning rhyme with accompanying photograph as I do every morning.
I publish light Read more [...]
Futurecity conceives, develops and delivers major art projects worldwide that signify the Cultural City. I’ve worked with Futurecity on many ocassions through its visionary mark Davy. They commissioned Read more [...]
It's not like anything I've ever written. It is based on The Files. My search for the files is documented in a BBC radio 4 doc I made in 2010 called Child of The State. At the end of the documentary Read more [...]
This is the most extraorinary interview on the subject of love I have ever been a part of. It's from a winning project called Conversations On Love spearheaded by the beautiful mind of Natasha Lunn. Read more [...]
I received the following message and was granted permission to share.
"I want to say thank you. In February I was diagnosed with a 8mm ommental fat hernia. While I was Read more [...]
My memoir "My Name Is Why" is available to pre-order now. The hardback is at the printers now. There are.42 days left until release date.
Proofs of My Name Is Why have been sent. to various Read more [...]
“The greatest threat to their lives was a spark
The sulferuous spite filled spit of diablo
So they became spark catchers. Strike.”
- excerpt from Spark Catchers
I visited my artwork “Spark Read more [...]
Let's start the day with some good news: Since my last blog on 23rd June The Home Office has granted Ezana's seventy year old mother a visa to celebrate his graduation!! She named her son Ezana after Read more [...]
Ezana Haddis of The University of Manchester was born and raised in one of the inner-city slums of Addis Ababa. He suffered epilepsy for 16 years from the age of 11 to 27. His parents didn’t go Read more [...]