The Tongue Fu band are astonishing musicians who do live improvisation with poets. It really was ‘a dream come true’ to play with them.
I wrote this poem for a friend’s footie-mad daughter (aged 10). It celebrates The Lionesses, and all the women who struggled over the last 70 years so today’s women and girls can play football.
I worked on the New Forest exhibition “Pathways from Protest to Purpose’. with the brilliant visual artist Jo Nurse. https://drjonurseartist.com/about/ This poem celebrates people working together to tackle the Climate Emergency.
This poem shows how ‘re-wilding’ conservation programmes offer multiple environmental and health benefits to our communities . It features the voice of top poet, Robyn Bolam https://robynbolam.com/
Here’s a poem celebrating local communities used in a news piece by Meridien TV.
I won an open-call commission for Southampton Festival of Words. This quirky spoken word show looks at the different ways parks reflect how a city changes.
This was part of ‘The Art to Art’ project 2021 (with the Obsidian Foundation, Nick Mahota and Ella Frears) responding to the film ‘Missing Time by Morgan Quaintance.
Sometimes the poet is good but the audience is a bit rubbish 😉 Here’s a lovely gig I did at The Front Room event in Portsmouth.
A poem published in the online journal ‘ iamnotasilentpoet ‘
We Don’t Speak
We don’t speak Kalashnikov
though our mouths fill with blood
we don’t speak grenade
though fear clothes our skin
we don’t speak slaughter
though we see your blind hatred
read the braille of all our hands joining
the padding morse of our determined tears.
WE. WILL. ALWAYS. WIN