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228mph or, The Falconer
Here’s a poem I wrote for a Teach First poetry slam we held yesterday – mine didn’t end up being performed (although the poem which did...
Aug 1, 20121 min read
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Beautiful Weeds, Cities and Systems
Botanical Time-Teller At the end of last month, I performed the Vermin Cycle at Green Man Festival – it was a great experience, although...
Sep 10, 20113 min read
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Verdle
I was just reminded of this lovely site, where you can enter a body of text and it creates a beautiful word cloud image… So I created my...
Jul 27, 20111 min read
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Balance Month
It's Balance Month. But I won't be doing any of this. (Have you seen 'Man On Wire'? It made my head hurt) On Saturday evening, H Ren and...
Jul 7, 20112 min read
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Everything Borrowed
A post-apocalyptic roach, Pixar-style I’ve just finished reading Margaret Atwood’s ‘Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth’. It’s a...
Jul 4, 20113 min read
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Write Club, Spike Island, Monday 13th June
Next week, I’ll be ‘guest hosting’ a writer friend’s group at Spike Island – on Monday evening, 6-8pm. Hopefully I’ll do a passable...
Jun 8, 20111 min read
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‘Filing The Poet Laureate’
I’ve been working recently back in well-known broadcasting institution – and wrote this poem based on an occurrence a week or so ago....
Jun 7, 20111 min read
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June: Convergence Month
I realise it’s a little late, but I declare – on behalf of The Palace of the Gorgeoisie – that June 2011 is: CONVERGENCE MONTH For some...
Jun 6, 20112 min read
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BCFM – Vermin, Part Two
Just to say that part two of the Vermin Cycle, which I recorded for lovely Dave’s BCFM programme ‘A Cup of Tea and a Piece of Cake’, will...
Jun 2, 20111 min read
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Einstein’s Garden, Green Man – Profile Page
You can see my profile page here: http://www.greenman.net/artist2011/vermin/4210 Very much looking forward to performing at Green Man,...
May 30, 20111 min read
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BioVision, Lyon
At the beginning of March, I travelled to Lyon to report on the BioVision World Life Sciences Forum for Research Media/International...
May 28, 20111 min read
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BioBlitz, Tyntesfield, and Stokes Croft Street Fest
Performing 'Cull (After Hitchcock)' at BioBlitz (c) BioBlitz Performing 'To His Coy Hen' at BioBlitz (c) BioBlitz I was lucky enough to...
May 22, 20112 min read
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A Cup of Tea
The first installment of the recorded Vermin poems (1-3) can be heard here, on lovely Dave Miles’ BCFM show ‘A Cup of Tea’:...
May 17, 20111 min read
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BioBlitz and BCFM
The ‘premier’ of the Vermin Cycle will be at the Bristol Natural History Constortium BioBlitz event, next Saturday 21st May at...
May 7, 20111 min read
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Green Man, Folk Tales, Sloth-fox
Excellent news, I’ve been confirmed as performing in Einstein’s Garden at the Green Man Festival in August! There is some information...
May 2, 20113 min read
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Chaos Theory, Jelly-step
This evening, I went to the Grant Bradley Gallery in Bedminster for a science-inspired writing open mic night. It was a follow-up from a...
Apr 20, 20113 min read
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Postmodern Spiritual Pie-Chart
Last week, I attended the BioVision World Life Sciences Forum, in Lyon (France (obviously)), as a journalist – or something a little bit...
Apr 4, 20112 min read
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Gert Grit – ‘True Grit’ review
I recently wrote a review of the Coen brothers’ ‘True Grit’ for a new Bristol publication called ‘The Bristol Man’. You can read it here:...
Mar 21, 20112 min read
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Change The Subject Month (February), Clean Month (March), Foxy Vermin
February’s theme was a roaring success at H Ren’s suggestion: Change The Subject Month. As the name suggests, nobody noticed that it was,...
Mar 10, 20114 min read
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La Cucaracha
Before you start reading, do press play on this little film of ‘La Cucaracha’ to accompany you: it’s just so gosh darn chirpy. In my...
Jan 18, 20113 min read
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