A new experience of the Text Festival launch was the way events bounced-referred around different blogs. In that spirit of pointing to interesting things, the other blog that I frequently look at is we-make-money-not-art. Regine Debatty's report on the Knowbotic Research is worth a read.
Poem: Radiohead before its invasion of Palestine
Radiohead used to be my favourite band. I saw them live three times (at least one I reviewed here) and I had all the albums. I threw them a...
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As per the last blog, the first novel of my post-UK period, The Family Idiots , is near enough finished (just proofing, etc) so I have mov...
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Having done virtually no research about Leiria before I arrived, I was very enamored with it - a very charming little town, given what I im...
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Back in 2005, I launched the International Text Festival in Bury, Manchester. It's aim was to question, curate, display, distribute, ar...