Collaboration and celebration

I recently wrote two pieces on the subject of collaboration for The Friday Poem, an excellent and vibrant poetry venture (started by Hilary Menos and Andy Brodie a little over a year ago) which sends a new poem to subscribers’ inboxes every Friday. The Friday Poem also carries reviews, articles, opinion, all kinds of good…

Illustrated talk for University of Kent symposium on Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities on 21st April 2016

http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/research/conferences/artistsbooks.html This talk/article has also been posted on the BMJ Medical Humanities blog. I had been so looking forward to this wonderful symposium devised, designed and immaculately planned by Stella Bolaki, and to seeing the exhibition of Martha Hall’s and other book artists’ work  – which is still on until 14 August  (Prescriptions Beaney House of…

The publication of CELL

Yesterday, Michaela Ridgway and I took delivery of CELL, the not-quite-pamphlet which gives embodiment to my poem in twelve sections with art by Michaela. The object has been designed by Katy Mawhood – it’s a printed and folded sheet with only some of the folds cut, so that it can be handled and read in…