In April 2024 I collaborated with Gateshead-based sound artist Craig Stewart Johnson to create a new artwork exploring the notion of language beyond traditional understandings and expectations of the written word. Presented as a work-in-progress live…

My debut poetry pamphlet, The Second Dream, is now available to pre-order from UK innovative poetry publisher, Steel Incisors. Responding to the affective and ideological dimensions of Jonathan Glazer’s cult sci-fi/horror film, Under the Skin (currently available to watch for free on Channel 4), the pamphlet includes…

It’s rare to come across a poetry collection composed as much of language and ideas as it is of people and places, but this is exactly what we get in Place Waste Dissent & Diisonance (Hesterglock Press 2020). Recounting the occupation in the early 90s…

When I enrolled onto the Writing Poetry MA at Newcastle University in 2018, I had no idea where my education in poetry would take me. Over the last two years, I've gained a deeper understanding of the creative possibilities of poetry than I ever imagined I would, and walked through doorways that I never knew existed, let alone ever expected to find…

In May 2015, over forty years after its original publication, Philippe Sollers’s ground-breaking novel, H, was published in English for the very first time by Equus Press. As part of Birkbeck's Arts Week that year, Dr David Vichnar and Professor Louis Armand—editors of Prague-based literary magazine VLAK,—visited the college to give a talk…

Mick Barnfather is a theatre director, actor and teacher with over 35 years of professional industry experience. He currently leads the first year theatre studies module at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London, and also offers a variety of independent performance-based workshops…

Known as the ‘Tree Surgeon Poet,’ Matthew Plumb is an experienced forester and increasing presence on the UK poetry scene whose love and appreciation for the land he lives and works on continues to provide a steady flow of inspiration for his writing. Raised in the Black Mountains, he’s enjoyed a life-long connection to nature, and much of his work focuses…