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  • Short Story: Nasturtiums (2021)

    Taking Sheila Legge’s image and Kafka’s Gregor Samsa as equal parts inspiration, I arrived at this short story as my response to The Kick-About No.36. There’s a bit of horticultural knowledge in there too, a… Read more

  • The Kick-About #36 ‘Phantom Of Surrealism’

    With its sepia tint, post-card proportions, and London landmark, this week’s prompt, Sheila Legge’s Phantom of Surrealism, might just as easily have surfaced as part of our previous Kick-About, inspired by the word souvenir -… Read more

  • When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach @ Crossings Poetic International Film Festival 2021

    I’m happy to report When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach (2021) has been selected for the Crossings Poetic International Film Festival 2021. Thanks very much! Read more

  • Throwback Friday #72 Blue Chapel (2016)

    In the old house, No. 351, there is, remarkably, and old internal chapel, with blue walls and stained glass. The whole set-up is filmic and theatrical, like something from a children’s book, in which amazing… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #71 ‘Monster Face’ (2015)

    Back in early December 2015, I travelled out to Hirson, France, to oversee the screening of this animation in concert with the Orchestra de Picardie. It was coming up to the end of the autumn… Read more

  • The Two Rivers Café Podcast / Wine Doesn’t Agree With Me

    Last year, composer Andrew Fisher very kindly agreed to write the theme for my audiobook adaptation of my first children’s book, Chimera Book 1. Andrew nailed it first time out, taking all the inspiration he… Read more

  • Scars (2021)

    I’ve got a number of scars on my forty-six year old body; the ubiquitous BCG crater on my arm, a hernia scar from when I was a tiny baby, a ‘hole’ between my eyebrows where… Read more

  • The Kick-About #35 ‘Souvenir’

    Our last Kick-About together was illuminated by Marie Menken’s experimental film, Lights. Made in 1966, the glow coming off Menken’s film is as much powered by a certain nostalgia for a particular time and place,… Read more

  • Lights (After Menken) #9 (2021)

    And finally, a last few dribs and drabs from my fantasia on a theme of Marie Menken – and with a hint of Gatsby glamour! Read more

  • Lights (After Menken) #8 (2021)

    So things took a monochromatic turn this time out – with some suitably atmospheric results! There’s a nicely weird mix of ultrasounds, spooks and radiowaves in the mix here, reminding me of the opening titles… Read more

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