Category Archives: Brighton Festival

May 13 2012

Brighton Festival – to sex it up or to not sex it up?

So this time last year, I entered the Brighton Festival Poetry Competition at the Hendricks Library of Delightfully Peculiar Writings and what a night it was. I got ‘special mention’ which my mum reckons means ‘you were the best really’ but I was particularly devastated that, yet again, the person with the food sex poem won the £100. When I say devastated, I mean I had a major confidence crash and went into major drama queen mode that life would never be the same again. Then my mum (yes really) suggested I write a food sex poem to outdo all other food sex poems and ‘Dinner will be served at 7′ was born. Since then it has been performed to open mouths(!) at several down and dirty pubs and the ‘foodfuck’ poem is my most requested.

But do I really want to be known as the Foodfuck poet?

So, I put it to you…please decide for me? I’ll be sure to let you know how I get on. My choices for entering the competition are:

If you want a reminder of the poems – Brighton is HERE (right click to open in a new window) and Dinner will be Served at 7 is HERE. The medley would probably be Par Pitie, Not the First Date & Blink.

Apr 16 2012

Da-Dah!

All done. The proof copies are apparently winging their way over my way right now and I am completely anticipatious and trembley-like. Watch this space. Keep everything crossed. Despite last-minute hiccups of having to reset all the illustrations, reconfigure the Table of Contents and finding (gasp!) an ‘it’s’ that should have been ‘its’ in the last 24 hours before it went to print, I’m still pretty much bang on schedule. I’m hoping it’s going to be the best one yet. Watch out for much whooping and over excitement before the end of the week!

Mar 26 2012

Very close…

to finishing the book. I’m trying to concentrate, keep my head down and get it done for my self-imposed deadline. But one more illustration to share… the rest will have to be a surprise. Back soon, I promise!

May 31 2011

Another festival, another podcast

Gosh, it’s been busy. The festival this year was (in my humble opinion) bloody brilliant. I took part in a couple of events and generally rolled about in the loveliness of it all but due to the bronchitis, busking was not an option this year. So it’s back down to work and it’s going to be a quiet time on here while I get the new collection and cd together but I would like to share – this – (right click on these words to open in a new window) which will be going on the new cd. I performed this live at the wonderful Hendrik’s Cabinet of Curiosities during the festival, with the aid of their wonderful (free) gin and some bravado. But now I have set the music, which is sublime and again from Somewhere off Jazz Street. Please follow the link to their site from the podcast and wallow in their sounds. All their music is available for free download and is a continuance of this wonderful sharing that artists seem to embrace nowadays. Oh just go listen – or I could rabbit on all day :)

Apr 14 2011

Spread some poetry around…

is what I put on the back of all my postcards nowadays and with the latest ones, I realised there are now 15 in the series! Loads of people ask me where they can get them and I usually reply ‘catch me on the seafront or in the Pavilion Gardens’ but as there is now a sizeable amount I wondered if some would like a whole set… to spread some poetry around, or a smile, or just a thought. Anyway, if you would, you can hit the paypal button below and donate something towards a set – I was thinking £2 including p&p (about $3.50), which I’ll make up to a set of 20 with some duplicates of the newer ones (as they’re rather cool!). If you would like to buy The Poet Busker book included at a bargain all inclusive price (because I’m too lazy to do the math), then pop in £5 or $8.20 or whatever you can afford. I’m not being hasty because looking through the archives it seems its kinda an Easter tradition for me to do this and let’s face it, it’s less calorific than giving a chocolate egg. And it truly makes me happy when people enjoy my poems, so if you want to jump on my train, then I’ll save you a seat. :)

You will be asked for your address for me to post it to.

Apr 2 2011

New Postcard!

I’ve been busy getting stock together for the Brighton Festival (have booked my first tickets, too!) and so far, this is one of my favourite postcards. It’s amazing how different fonts and backgrounds change the whole mood of the poem.

If you don’t already know… I give them away during the festival as part of the ‘spread some poetry around’ and now there are 16 in the postcard series! The nicest thing is when someone sends one back to me, haha… but just to know they get sent around is lovely.

The nicest one so far, do you agree?