My collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa. You can read more about this and other publications here, along with poems, details of forthcoming readings and the odd snippet of news.
Readings - details here.
Next readings: Three Graces at The Wheatsheaf, Wed 31 March, with Sally Read and Roisin Tierney.
Photos from Verbatim Book Store reading, Stellenbosch and news of a visit to Merchant Taylors' School.
Critical Perspective by Alex Pryce on British Council Contemporary Writers Site.
New work in Succour, and forthcoming in Dreamcatcher and Magma.
'The Buried Butterfly' on Poetry Daily.
Reviews for A Fold in the Map:
The Mail & Guardian (SA)
The Times - one of Elaine Feinstein's books of the year
"Essentially British"
Alice Unintentionally Offends the Queen,
Who Calls the Executioner: People can
get careless about making tea. The Don bats on,
the glory of Down Under, England’s Despair.
But Alice Growing Bolder, Boxes His Ears.
How can you come to England and not see the Tower?
Let every cup of tea be a cup that cheers,
each teapot warmed, kept scrupulously clean.
“Do tell me, are you boys from the Empire?”
Magic it must be that makes men sit and dream
of beauty of shingle, cliff and moor
and wistful yearnings never quite fulfilled.
“You’re all idealists – practical
idealists if that softens the blow.”
Why travel abroad? Land’s End to John O’
Groats, Tea Revives and We Sing as We Go!
“Ee, custards and all, I call this a bit
of a do!”– In the Confusion That Ensues,
Alice Awakes: “I don’t know how you chaps feel,
but I could do with another pint!”
A bit of fun from a British Film Institute commission, using films in the Mediateque's 'Essentially British' collection. All lines are quotes (very slightly adapted in a couple of cases) from the following films: Cecil Hepworth’s (now newly restored) Alice in Wonderland (1903), Cricket (1951), From the Four Corners (1941), The Open Road (1927), Sing as We Go! (1934), and Tea-Making Tips (1941).