Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

This year’s Hebden Bridge Arts Festival has just been announced. I’ll be taking part in two events this year. On June 22 I’ll be in conversation with Tracey Thorn (Marine Continue reading →

May Reading List

Falling and Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins, Grace Maxwell Beach Party LP, Marine Girls Quarry Hill Flats Revisited, Peter Mitchell The Alcohol Years, dir. Carol Morley Journey Without Maps, Graham 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 →

Dark Corners Out This Week

So finally, after two years of banging my head against the wall, trying to get this collection written, Dark Corners of the Land has arrived. Geraint has done a cracking Continue reading →