Painted, spoken

30/01/2024

Met online.

22/01/2024

A beautiful booklet from Buffalo SUNY which tracks down the New York School in the traces of small press.

19/12/2023

Hope folks have a great break! Here's a Christmas elf, drawn by a Christmas imp Rory. Take care and see you before long.

26/11/2023

Rory is 10!!

20/11/2023

Informationist Ghazal.

17/11/2023

Live at the Torriano with Hasti and an open mic. Sunday night, 26th November.

29/10/2023

Spotted in a national newspaper this weekend! And just in time to say James McGonigal and I will be double launching our books in Scotland on Wednesday at the Scottish Poetry Library.

28/10/2023

What a great night! Thanks to everyone who came up to Jackson's Lane to celebrate with me and hear the new poems! !

26/10/2023

From the poem Zero Hours, in Late Gifts, the new collection from Carcanet. Out today!

21/10/2023

Bodies, from Late Gifts. Hoping for a ceasefire, the transition away from illegal settlements, and work towards peace. Solidarity with Palestine, always. In meantime donate for medical help here: https://www.map.org.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjw7c2pBhAZEiwA88pOF6G2L5e3NZj7GWYvOalkDG5Vs_9AVFfiD1pluKDeSdnXAm209xN1OxoC_y0QAvD_BwE

14/10/2023

From Late Gifts, published this month.

30/09/2023

Saturday stroll, mini picnic with the wee One in Russell Sq, then to London Review Bookshop who are well ahead of the game. Late Gifts now out in the wild! Keeping fine company with Frances Presley and ... Proust! PS LRB do mail order!

28/09/2023

Message, from Late Gifts, the new book from . Live events from October.

20/09/2023

Orangutan! I used to sing this one to the Wee One. We loved being disgusted, and disgusting! In Late Gifts (Carcanet, 2023).

16/09/2023

Wedding Song, from Late Gifts. Written for my lovely niece Iona and her husband Lee. ###

09/09/2023

Late Gifts is dedicated to this chap, and it came as a surprise! Books have just arrived!

17/08/2023

First dates for readings from Late Gifts. Would love to add dates further afield, so let me know if that's in your gift!

11/08/2023

The wee one learning his trade on holiday. "I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playin' pool.'

16/07/2023

And now a preview of the cover for Late Gifts, due from Carcanet in October....

23/06/2023

Delighted to have 25 micro poems in PN Review! Based on the animals that feature in the Brazilian lottery Jogo do Bicho.

13/05/2023

Bicycle bells, Amsterdam.

05/04/2023

The snake-heads made it through another winter in the Hanging Gardens of Haringey. I love these delicate, serious plants.

02/04/2023

Saints, big books, luxury homes and modest ones, kilns, castles, causeways and causes, and a lone curlew. And everywhere skylarks transmitting their untranslatable exhilaration. Lindisfarne today.

20/03/2023

Hamburg Public Library: an absolutely brilliant place, books (and much else) for all ages and inclinations; warm, welcoming spaces; and a brilliant café.

18/02/2023

Just back from the printer... Painted, spoken 37. More info about the project at paintedspoken.com

11/06/2022

The limited ed print edition of issue #36 is nearly there. I had better pause, having 'finished' typesetting and let any errors surface overnight... An issue that only really came together in the final sequencing... with beaut new poems from Gerrie Fellows, Robin Fulton Macpherson, the recent Cholmondeley-winning David Kinloch, Peter McCarey, Jacqueline Schaalje & visual work from Greg Thomas. James McGonigal reviews new Dante & Iain Bamforth writes on Andrew Lees' life in neurology.

And as always I'll put versions of the issue up on http://paintedspoken.com.

Poetry

01/06/2022

Congratulations to David Kinloch, often published in Painted, spoken, who has today been awarded a much deserved Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors! The next issue will indeed feature more poetry from David.