‘Neil Gaiman has given me permission to write Death.’ About nine months ago, I found myself whispering this sentence to a comics’ fan. It was an attempt to impress them. They were impressed. I was impressed. I was also scared. Although I wasn’t really supposed to tell anyone, I had been given the extraordinary […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Well, here we are again… I am going to speak a lot about music this evening – specifically, about jazz and even more specifically about that swing without which it don’t mean a thing. [This is the text of the talk I gave to the Creative Writing MA students at Birkbeck on June 17th, 2014 […]
(This was given as a talk to the Friends of West Norwood Library, at their Annual General Meeting, on Saturday 7th June, 2014 – in a sun-baked room in the West Norwood temporary library. Copper nicked from the roof and ongoing conversion to a Ritzy Cinema have closed West Norwood Library for months.) Stand-up comedians have the […]
Lewis Carroll’s lovely square 6×6 poem is the lead in to a request from a friend of mine, composer Emily Hall. If you’re a poet, and like formal challenges here are the rules… Emily Hall (@emilyhally) is looking for some (sorry fb) twitter-generated text to set to music, for performance by the […]
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