Latest!

Montreal Poetry Prize 2015

Amazing news – especially considering that I don’t write any more! I have been shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize. I am in the 2015 anthology. You can read my poem, The African Burial Ground, and hear a recording of me reading it here. (You might want to glance at a famous piece of American…

Fragile Viking

Fragile Viking

This is my project from my residency in Fljotstunga, Iceland. It comprises paper boats, floating in rural Iceland, including in an ice and lava cave. It’s about lots of things – human fragility in the harsh landscape, the sheer aburdity of placing paper in this extreme environment, journeys – literal and emotional, displacement, etc. It…

Sheela

Sheela

I’m not sure how to title this yet, or whether it will be part of a series. For the timebeing I’m going with ‘Sheela’ as in ‘Sheela-na-gig’. But I might change it to ‘Prawn’ or ‘Cuntface’. Nothing seems quite right. It may be because, although I had a strong compulsion to create this, I’m not…