‘Shock-construction’, a poem I wrote which should really have an exclamation mark in the title, has won second prize in The Elmet Trust Poetry Prize, judged by Steve Ely. You can read it, along with the first prize winner and other winners, on The Elmet Trust’s website, (I note that there’s an issue with the […]
Author archives: shotscarecrow
Live Canon (Books, Poetry Competition)
Here’s my (thumbed) copy of 154, published by Live Canon, whose poetry competition closes in *looks at calendar* three days’ time! Ah, so much to unravel! Live Canon are not actually a poetry publisher per se; they are an acting ensemble who perform poetry theatrically. Part of the prize for being shortlisted in their competition […]
*** Asterism *** Book and Event
This is Asterism, edited by Tiffany Anne Tondut, who has modestly left her name off the cover. It’s ‘an anthology of poems inspired by punctuation’, and guess what? I made the team! (”I made the team” immediately in the running to be 2016′s most irritating euphemism for “Look, I got published again”). The poem of […]
Poetry London / The Self-Made Man Design Document
I have won this year’s Poetry London competition, judged by Sean O’Brien, and I’ll be reading the winning poem at the following event in September (that’s me on the right, see, with my name underneath my face):The poem is called ‘The Self-Made Man’. You can read it on the Poetry London website – but before […]
Urban Myths and Legends
I have a poem, ‘Yardang’, published in Urban Myths & Legends: Poems About Transformations, edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright, and published by The Emma Press. It’s hard not to note how apposite the theme of this anthology is, particularly given the emphasis (which Wright notes in her introduction) on unwelcome, disturbing forms of […]
The Mechamorphoses
Late notice as usual on the ‘What’s Next?’ tumblr, but for my 33rd birthday I started a new tumblr called The Mechamorphoses. It collects transforming Transformers poems written by my friends and fellow poets.
Tomboys
Tomboys is a limited edition (74 copies) signed pamphlet published by Tungsten Press, printed by Frank Turenhout and Hans Dessens on Zerkall Butten and Zerkall Restauro. It comprises three colour-concrete poems in the shape of (and concerning) Revolutionary Girl Utena, Cowboy Bebop’s Radical Edward and Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. A single […]
Bowie-Burns Megamash
Written and performed by Abigail Parry and myself for Burns Night 2016 at the Beer Boutique in Putney, with mild guitar accompaniment. (intro) Ground Control to Major Tom,Is there a bard of rustic song?But with a frater-feeling strong, here heave a sigh. Ground Control to Major Tom,Alas, how chang’d the times to come!Should auld acquaintance […]
Jon Stone: “Died 30 March 1997“
I now have an artist page on the BBC website. It says I died 18 years ago. I don’t believe I was consulted on this.More encouragingly though, they have recordings of five of my poems!