I have measured out my life in banana boxes
It’s Thursday. Thoughts turn to prepping for a weekend of secondhand bookselling. My home is full of banana boxes. Why? Because banana boxes are the perfect size to fill with…
It’s Thursday. Thoughts turn to prepping for a weekend of secondhand bookselling. My home is full of banana boxes. Why? Because banana boxes are the perfect size to fill with…
North Shields has changed beyond belief over the past 50 years. Coalmining and fishing industries died leaving a once thriving town twiddling its thumbs, wondering what to do with itself….
I lived in London for 15 years and spent another two living in Cambridge and commuting into the Big Smoke for work. When I first moved there aged 22 I…
Never close the door on your past. Celebrate teenage achievements. Simon Mckay was 15 years old when he started his punk fanzine Eccentric Sleevenotes with his mate, Stephen. It was…
A few years ago Peter “Iron Press” Mortimer used to host a regular spoken word and music evening called Free as a Bard at the Trojan Rooms in Whitley Bay….
It was Paula Rego’s birthday yesterday. I love her work but Anne’s not a fan. Who is Anne and why should it matter what she thinks? Well Anne is Anne…
How lovely to have been involved in photographer Simone Rudolphi’s first Sunday Salon. Simone brought a small group of like-minded folk together in her home on Sunday evening. Attendees were…
When faced with existential crisis I ask myself the following two questions: “What would Jimi Hendrix do?” and “What would PJ Harvey do?” These are the only questions I need…
In 2013 I started collaborating with artist Anne Proctor http://anneproctor.wordpress.com/ Through Anne I met the good folk at Willy Nillie in Chester le Street http://willynillie.org.uk/ In 2013 I got to…
I am now an Apples and Snakes poet. Cut and paste and ponder the significance of Hawaii 5 0 to my life http://www.applesandsnakes.org/page/84/Performance+poets?sent=yes&poetSearch=elaine&criteria=all&submit=Submit and why am I so far up…