Composed for the Beer Boutique’s Burns Night Rampage. Drink a finger for every reference to boozing. Here’s a bottle and an honest friend! The devil’s away and the devil’s away. Oh, nought but love and sorry joined. The devil’s away and the devil’s away. Here brewer Gabriel’s fire’s extinct. The devil’s away and […]
Author archives: shotscarecrow
Bird Superminis
So these little things have been our hot cakes over the past week. Each is a small, slender book containing a mere handful of poems, all concerning their cover star. Some of the poems are classics, some new. I wanted to talk just briefly about being a cover designer. I’m not a cover designer. Not […]
from ‘Death Daydream Season’, originally published in ’School of Forgery’ and now available as a set of seven greetings cards from Sidekick Books.David Keel was John Steed’s original partner in the first series of The Avengers.
Two Recent Live Events
Hey! As well as reading at GameCity in Nottingham, I’ve co-run two live poetry events over the past month, both in locations as yet untested (so far as I’m aware) by London’s writers and spoken word artists. I also rustled up (and I do mean rustled up – timing was very tight) the above flyers […]
B O D Y Literature
I posted a retrospective on my previous appearance in B O D Y back in April. April! Really? That’s half a year ago! Those poems were translations. But this time the editors have published an entirely original (as far as anything I write is entirely original) poem of my own, entitled The One and the […]
Poetry London
Not exactly quick off the mark with this, are we, Jon? I won first prize in the Poetry London competition this year, and they published my winning poem, ‘Nightjar’, in the Autumn issue. I also read it at the issue launch, which was held at ZSL London Zoo, near the emus. On the poem itself: […]
Cartridge Lit
I have two new poems up at Cartridge Lit today. As far as I’m aware, this is the only literary journal that specialises in game poems and other game-related writing, and the fact that it’s updated frequently with work of quality suggests that the genre is starting to take off, in the US at least. […]
Drawn to Marvel
American poetry is a whole ‘nuvver thing and I barely know where to start with it. There are high profile exports like Timothy Donnelly and Michael Robbins, and then, beyond them, billions and billions more poets, some very interesting indeed. I paid through the nose for Cunt Norton by Dodie Bellamy, and it was worth […]
The Emma Press Anthology of Fatherhood
A poem of mine, Tiberius and the Kid, is included in the latest anthology from The Emma Press, which was published on 29th May, just in time for Fathers’ Day in the UK. Firstly, on the matter of the poem, it’s part of a new-ish book I’m putting together which has nothing to do with anything […]