Totally excited to announce that I have a new longish-pamphlet of poems, The Zircon Ferries, coming out at the end of August 2021 with the incredible Beir Bua Press. The press, based in Co. Tipperary, is run by award-winning poet Michelle Moloney King. It’s the publishing press of sister site Beir Bua Journal and publishesContinue reading “The Zircon Ferries, a new pamphlet by MW Bewick”
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John Ashbery, Brockport Writers Forum, 1972
Some Comments on Fred Frith
Fred Frith writes music with titles such as ‘No Birds’ and ‘The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not’. He prepares and plays guitars with drum sticks, ping pong balls, ribbons, anything. He is an expert with delay. Fred Frith is an experiment. Are there rules? What are the rules? NeedContinue reading “Some Comments on Fred Frith”
Pomes Flixus: “Affirming, enchanting and enduring”
Lovely to see a review of Pomes Flixus make into London Grip. Thanks to Julie Hogg (a fantastic poet herself) and to Michael and everyone at LG. Read the review here.
“I’ll give you an answer by Christmas”
Correspondence between poet, publisher and City Lights bookshop owner Laurence Ferlinghetti, who has just died, and the poet Frank O’Hara.
“A poet lays his night upon the table” – Jean Cocteau speaks to the Year 2000
“We remain apprentice robots. I certainly hope that you have not become robots, but on the contrary that you have become very humanised. That’s my hope.”
Surface Forms 1
The Lonely Crowd – Issue 12
The Lonely Crowd Issue 12 is published today and I’m delighted to have three poems in it – ‘Found Poem for Philip Glass’, ‘David, Again’ and ‘Music of the Woods’. At 325 pages it’s a whopper of an issue, with prose, essays and interviews as well as poems, and it’s a smart-looking thing, too. ThanksContinue reading “The Lonely Crowd – Issue 12”
Welcome to December
So into December we go. A really gloomy day here in the wilds of north Essex today. But that’s only right for this time of year, yeah? It feels like a blink since we were publishing Pomes Flixus six months ago. Yet how bright and green the late days of May seem now. Did youContinue reading “Welcome to December”
Stride magazine review: ‘Remembering this occasion is ours’
“These poems document the act of seeing and thinking about what is being seen just as Creeley’s work sometimes does. Memory and imagination are also here in abundance…” Rupert Loydell reviewed Pomes Flixus and The Orphaned Spaces in Stride magazine back in September. You can read them here.
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