Richard Sanderson is doing another one of his free-for-all projects Two Minutes Left over at Linear Obsessional Recordings (Submissions open until December 15th). I took part in last year’s Button Box with a spoken word piece from my story “Carlos” that appears in the second Fox Pockets anthology, Shapeshifters. That recording is free to download: So…
Tag: poetry
The Krampus Returns
Yes, it seems the rest of the world has caught up on the Krampus craze thanks to social media and the ‘tube which has allowed folks to share video and vintage postcards easily. And yes, it does get a bit tiresome always being ahead of the curve. So yes, I was finally stirred to create…
Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
Every creative gets this question sooner or later: those asking think it’s the most natural thing in the world to ask about this ‘mysterious’ process. Those questioned, however, can’t help wondering where don’t you get ideas?! The truth is inspiration comes from the oddest things (that’s why we carry notebooks) but it can also be…
Happy Halloween
May your day be delightful, whatever you get up to — here’s a little poem for you: LULU Lulu has the biggest Teeth, From above and underneath— They gleam like Stars in midnight black, And once they’re out, they don’t go back Until some morsel slips between, Sundered on the bright points keen. Keep…
Review: The Berries
The Berries This hilarious play is set in the summer of 1974 amid the berry fields of Kirriemuir, and follows a day in the life of four Dundee ‘nabblers’ (pickers) as they toil and graft under the watchful eye of the no-nonsense foreman Rab. In order to distract themselves from the hard work, they enter…
Anticipation
We have tickets for two plays coming up at Dundee Rep: Let The Right One In A stage adaptation by Jack Thorne based on the Swedish novel and screenplay of the film by John Ajvide Lindqvist Directed by John Tiffany Associate Director Steven Hoggett. A major new production, Let the Right One In is a…
New Big Thing: The Krampus
I did a quick version of the Krampus book to get it up in time for Krampus eve tonight. This is just a stopgap measure. I’ll make a better one when I can get a scan of the chapbook in high quality res (hint, hint anyone who’s got a copy and a scanner…). I had…
Overwhelmed by Stress on a Friday Afternoon
The best medicine: a little whimsy from the divine Edward Lear. There was a Young Lady whose bonnet Came untied when the birds sat upon it; But she said, “I don’t care! All the birds in the air Are welcome to sit on my bonnet!” There was an Old Man of Whitehaven, Who danced a…