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The Allotments exhibition open 29 August
I’m delighted to announce the opening of a new exhibition that I’ve been working on with colleague Dave Lockwood. The launch will be 3 pm on Thursday 29 August at Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery & Museum. There will also be a ‘Meet the Artists’ session on Saturday 31 August at the VG&M between 11 am – Continue reading
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Happy 80th Birthday, Frank Bidart
The wonderful American poet, Frank Bidart will be 80 on 27 May 2019 and his Collected Poems – Half-light – published in 2017 and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize should be read by anyone interested in contemporary poetry. Half-light – the title of the Collected Poems (2017) – is a quintessentially Bidartian title, suggesting as Continue reading
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Nellie Bly & LightNight Liverpool
I’m looking forward to doing a public reading of my poems about Nellie Bly (1864 – 1922) for the first time on Light Night on 17 May. The poems from my collection in progress – Insane Places – speak through Nellie as she’s trapped on Blackwell Island Insane Asylum, New York for ten days in the disguise of Nellie Moreno/Brown. Continue reading
About Me
I am a writer & poet based in Liverpool. My ninth poetry publication – Vestige (Maytree Press, 2023) is a collaboration with photographer, AJ. Wilkinson. A recipient of 2021 Saboteur Award & a MaxLiteracy Award I am a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Chester.
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