A Week of Whales
Latest blog post for Litro.co.uk… I’ve been haunted by whales this week. It all started with Dave from my writing group trying to list songs about whales, which spawned an eclectic playlist. Then I turned on the TV to be confronted by a whale being dissected. (They’d just gouged out something called the glove finger – [...]
Poems as performance … John Cooper Clarke
Latest blog post for Litro magazine … Last week I squeezed into a packed and sweaty auditorium at the South Bank Centre to watch performance poet and punk legend John Cooper Clarke’s show for the London Literature Festival. The Bard of Salford was on good form, despite the temperature. Now in his 60s, he still [...]