May Reading List
The Alcohol Years, dir. Carol Morley Falling and Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins, Grace Maxwell Beach Party LP, Marine Girls Quarry Hill Flats Revisited, Peter Mitchell Journey Without Maps, Continue reading
A Hole, Where People Should Be
It couldn’t have happened at a more pertinent moment. That morning I jumped a train to Bradford, the skies pregnant and bruised, and wandered through the railway precinct, staring at Continue reading
Hamsun Documentary
Chris Killen – author of The Bird Room, co-creator of Wizard’s Way and former Straight from the Fridge contributor – has helped research a documentary on BBC R4 this Thursday Continue reading
March Reading List
Holy Motors, dir. Leos Carax Nocturne, James Attlee Naples ‘44, Norman Lewis The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose Berberian Sound Studio, dir. Peter Strickland You Don’t Continue reading
Not the Oxford Literary Festival
I’ll be appearing in Oxford later this month as part of Not the Oxford Literary Festival on March 22nd at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Jericho. Dan Holloway has organised Continue reading
February Reading List
The Singing Detective, Dennis Potter Woman in a Dressing Gown, dir. J. Lee Thompson Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer Broken English (Deluxe Edition), Marianne Continue reading
3:AM Awards
I’m pleased to announce that Dark Corners of the Land was named ‘Poetry Book of the Year’ in the 3:AM Awards 2012. Thanks to all at 3:AM for voting. It Continue reading
Bad Blood
Welcome to 2013. For the first time in years I spent NYE in Tadcaster, drinking cheap wine and Sambuca on the banks of The Wharfe. The party was named ‘House Continue reading
Poetry, Readings, Research
Winter has arrived. The leaves have fallen. I’m sleeping under two duvets every night and dreaming of hot beaches. Time to hibernate for the winter. This might be my last Continue reading
October Reading List
Ruin, Cat Power The Guard, dir. John Michael McDonagh Knockemstiff, Donald Ray Pollock The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake, Breece D’J Pancake Copendium, Julian Cope Leave Them All Behind EP, Continue reading
