Please forgive me for putting aside the story from the previous blog. I will settle it in the future. A few weeks ago I sat down in a beige interview room in the legal district of Leeds City Read more [...]
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The Forgiveness Project
I thought forgiveness was exclusive to religion like an ocean to a buoy. I stayed the heck away from it. What happened to me was unforgivable. I could not forgive. I turned my ship to the open sea Read more [...]
I HATE POETRY
I was speaking at an academic conference in Plymouth University. The conference was called "Beyond Words: Privileging the Unspoken Arts & Communities in a Posthuman World". After an hours speech Read more [...]
“Something Dark” on the National Syllabus.
After a sell out tour of Gold From The Stone I am proud to share the news that Something Dark will be published by Oberon books. Something Dark will be included on the national Syllabus. A dramatic Read more [...]
Raising the game by Moonlight & How Positive Discrimination Works.
A stranger asked me what racism was like so I slapped him. Hard. As he lay on the floor I leaned over him and said "what's racism like?". He bemoaned that he wasn't racist cause he had a black Read more [...]
Sunday 2 Sunday. 7 Days.
Sunday 29th Jan 7pm The Orange Theatre in Richmond. Pouring rain. My GPS is busted. Crazy driving weather driving me crazy. Not a good look. Sold out. No costume, no music.No Read more [...]
For the love of Lists: Happy Birthday Desert Island Discs.
David Beckham interviewed by Kirsty Young marks 75th Anniversary of Desert Island Discs . The BBC Radio show was created by Roy Plomley in 1942, and the format is simple: a guest is invited by Read more [...]
I Kick Walls.
I’m reading Billy Lynn’s Long half time walk. It’s been adapted into film by Ang Lee. Talking of films... I saw Manchester By The Sea at a screening in The Soho Hotel: Grayson Perry was Read more [...]
100 words on how NOT to read a poem on stage.
New poets and old do it. They find a vocal rhythm and they stick to it whatever the cost. The voice becomes devoid of purpose other than to stay in the tonal rise and fall and rise and fall and rise Read more [...]
Something Dark at The Orange Tree.
The first week of 2017 started in Addis and was announced by The Ethiopian Herald. I arrived in London on 3rd January to a gorgeous feature in The February issue of Red Magazine. On 7th Read more [...]