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.
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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 […]
The Rialto #80
A poem of mine, Mifune, is published in issue 80 of The Rialto, which is available to order from here. The first thing I’d like to say about this poem is that I have no plans for it to appear anywhere else, ever. It will certainly not appear in a second collection. The second thing I’d […]
Revision Diary #1: ‘Seasonal Cartoon’
‘Seasonal Cartoon’ is a draft poem I wrote, I think, about two years ago, originally with linebreaks. These were removed in order to make it a narrow, column-like paragraph, a shape it now seems to have lost through being copied between various documents. The title has also been revised a few times. Here’s the version […]
Hong Kong Zuihitsu
I’m in Hong Kong working for a month and I’ve created a sort of daily mini-writing project to go along with it. It’s called Hong Kong Zuihitsu. (Digital phototouching credit: Someone who shall remain nameless).