Bear with me. I’m testing out a new approach, partly so that Share Your Toys, going forward, exactly synchs up with my Substack, Stray Bulletin. Social media being what it is, I don’t expect Substack to last (this blog was itself once a Tumblr), but it’s currently the place to connect with a slightly wider audience. […]
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“I goon-march and glide”, Part 3
NB. This piece is duplicated from my Substack, Stray Bulletin, and was originally published on October 17th. With the new university semester and two new Sidekick Books titles imminent now well-and-truly arrived, it’s time for a significant update to Stray Bulletin, recounting key happenings from the year so far. This is the last of three parts, released […]
“I goon-march and glide”, Part 2
NB. This piece is duplicated from my Substack, Stray Bulletin, and was originally published on September 8th. With the new university semester and two new Sidekick Books titles imminent, it’s time for a significant update to Stray Bulletin, recounting key happenings from the year so far. I’m going to do it in three parts released over […]
VS. Night Mini-Anthology
Tonight I’m trying something new: a fighting game and poetry night for students. They can take turns at 4-player arena battles on Power Stone 2 or team up for 2-player ‘Dramatic Battle’ mode in Street Fighter Alpha 3 (both from the recently released Capcom Fighting Collection 2 ). I’m bringing some thematically linked poems for […]
“I goon-march and glide”, Part 1
NB. This piece is duplicated from my Substack, Stray Bulletin. With the new university semester and two new Sidekick Books titles imminent, it’s time for a significant update to Stray Bulletin, recounting key happenings from the year so far. I’m going to do it in three parts released over a week. Let’s begin with: Part […]
Three Micro Roleplaying Poems
A couple of years ago, I hurriedly wrote three ‘micro roleplaying poems’ to hand out as part of a pamphlet at an conference. Each one was based on a 2022 game I loved: Stray, Sable and Citizen Sleeper. I decided recently to part-digitise them, rewriting some elements, and upload them for people to read/play. You […]
Jon’s Adventures in Space, Part 1
Jon’s Adventures in Space was the title of my earliest attempt at a novel, or rather a full-length book — I’m not sure I was aware of the concept of novels as distinct from storybooks at the time. I would have been in primary school, Year 3, so around 7 or 8. Every page was […]
Taper #14 / The Whisky Shop
A short interactive poem of mine, ‘The Whisky Shop’, is published in the latest issue of Taper, a journal of computational literature (poems and experimental lit crossed with coding, essentially). The constraint for all submissions to the journal is extreme: 2KB file size. A Microsoft Word document of a one-page poem I’m working on at […]
“Low-gravity Fever”
Note: this post is a duplication from my substack, Stray Bulletin. In between running numerous live events over the last couple of months (which I’ll post about soon) I’ve been designing/typesetting/putting the finishing touches to the fifth in Sidekick’s 10 Poets series, Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon. As well as featuring ten brand new, […]
The World You Now Own by P. W. Bridgman
This review was published last week in London Grip. The poet himself is a gentlemanly presence throughout this, his fifth collection, never more so than when he’s introducing ‘Deliverance, 1961’ the novella-in-thirty-two-cantos which takes up the back half of the book. Like a good-natured aide conducting us to the office of an eccentric royal, he’s […]