I’ve two tales to share. One is The Hackney Christmas Dinner for Care Leavers and the other is about Russell Brand. I'll start with the former. At last The Hackney Christmas Dinner Crowdfunder Read more [...]
I’m packing to move. I’m playing sad songs on spotify. Suitable melancholy. Occasional weeping. Books. Books in boxes. Bound for storage. Books. Time machines. Stories. Books. Bound on shelves. Read more [...]
Thanks for your advice to cold rental seas. It helped kick start me to action. My circumstances are the same but I’m standing with eyes open rather than bowed with eyes closed. I'm still looking Read more [...]
The next stage in my breakup is the completion of contracts on the property where we've lived for eight years. I receive gleeful updates from the lawyers at each stage of the complicated sale process Read more [...]
The University of Huddersfield recognises the particular challenges young care leavers face in accessing higher education and is the only University in the country to provide a PhD scholarship specifically Read more [...]
Today hunting packs of drones stalk the skies. Against a backdrop of World War One commemoration and present-day conflict around the world, my poem "Let There Be Peace" will be prominently Read more [...]
My identity has been questioned by those whom I oppose. I speak from the heart of an Ethiopian man, a British man, an English man, a spiritual man and a practical man. These are the ventricles Read more [...]
On 8th October I’ll be on stage at The Foundling Museum in the Court Room where this picture was taken. Please come. I’ll be reading my poems, giving a talk on my life and showing a film. There’ll Read more [...]
On 20th Sept (tomorrow night) at 8pm Kermit and me will be on stage talking together at Gorilla in Manchester. Come. I cannot wait. To my mind Kermit is one the most powerful musical and Read more [...]
Common Ground in the Undercroft: Tonight: Minutes before the launch of Southbank Towers People and Places exhibition by world famous New York based photographer Steve McCurry the Undercroft Read more [...]