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The Coming of the Wopoli

Sat, 5 May 2007 11:59:12 +0100

The Verb have done a wonderful job of my short play, The Coming of the Wopoli, available onlin e for the next 6 days, broadcast on Radio 3 last night. I’ve always thought I loved sci-fi until I was asked to do this programme. Then I realized that, like one of the other guests, Francis Spufford, th

A+ Project (3)

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:19:30 +0100

Two websites have gone up, with details of a project I ran in partnership with Jorn Ebner and Theatre Cap a Pie in a small village school in Wearhead in County Durham, through Creative Partnerships Durham-Sunderland, last year. Annie Bromley of Theatre Cap a Pie had initially been working with the

A+ Project (2)

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:14:03 +0100

Here is the text of an A poem, in the shape of an A, written using only words with a in them. I made it in collaboration with Wearhead Primary School in County Durham, and it now adorns all the ceilings of the school in vinyl lettering. See adjacent Blog entries for a photo-montage of it on the ce

A+ Project (1)

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:26:02 +0100

Here is a photo montage of a poem I installed across several ceilings of several walls in Wearhead Primary School in County Durham, in a project funded by Creative Partnerships Durham-Sunderland, working with Annie Bromley of Cap a Pie and Jorn Ebner. See adjacent blogs for more detail and links to

Spennymoor Letters Win Award

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:02:27 +0100

The Spennymoor Letters won its first award last night, in a nerve-wracking evening at the Journal Cultur e Awards 2006. This is the Newcastle-based paper’s first year of the Awards, celebrating arts and culture throughout the region. For me, not least, it was a great chance to learn about events I