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Pacific Trash Vortex: disabled eco-wisdom vs the high speed death cult Read it free, here, in the Dreaming in Green ebook, or listen to me read it to you here. My new essay - on the kinds of disabled eco-wisdom and learning that everyone needs right now. This came straight from the heart, with huge influence from many writers and thinkers and activitsts and teachers. An ecosystem of disabled knowledge and interconnected care. A poem that is a thought that is an essay that is an invitation. I am incredibly honoured to have this sit in the ebook alongside powerful work by writers I have long admired and learned from; I especially love Maya Chowdhry's poetic exploration of sea and bone, border and memory and carbon. Holding so much in such a compact space. And John Siddique's decolonisation of self and nature. Exactly the kinds of things that I look to for bearing in this late capitalist confusion of destruction. |
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transbareall podcast and book
Alongside Emil Green I've been talking with some of the artists and writers featured in the TransBareAll book - about art and food and home and ageing and the ways we move through the world. These are trans artists on their own terms, speaking from the heart about what matters to us.
This was initially planned as a live book tour for the launch of the TBA anthology, but of course the pandemic demanded change - so we went audio! We are currently working on transcripts for each of the episodes, and those will be available on the TBA website - I'll update here when those are live.
Listen for wolves, sharpie pens, expressionist film, zines, Turkish drag and more at anchor.fm/transbareall or in your podcast player of choice.
Alongside Emil Green I've been talking with some of the artists and writers featured in the TransBareAll book - about art and food and home and ageing and the ways we move through the world. These are trans artists on their own terms, speaking from the heart about what matters to us.
This was initially planned as a live book tour for the launch of the TBA anthology, but of course the pandemic demanded change - so we went audio! We are currently working on transcripts for each of the episodes, and those will be available on the TBA website - I'll update here when those are live.
Listen for wolves, sharpie pens, expressionist film, zines, Turkish drag and more at anchor.fm/transbareall or in your podcast player of choice.
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the dreadnought project
As part of the 2018 centenary events marking 100 years since all men and some (older, land-owning) women gained the vote in the UK, I was commissioned by The Birley artist studios in Preston to create a piece for their homage to The Woman's Dreadnought, the working class suffragette newspaper, looking specifically at those who were still denied the vote in the 1918 law change. My piece - Hyperacusis - weaves disability-altered aesthetics into letter-to-the-editor-style fiction, alongside my self portrait of the same name. It was a huge treat to work with The Birley artists! Check out more on this project and their wider work here. |
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digital literary mapping
Tales from the Towpath - talesfromthetowpath.net
Tales from the Towpath is an immersive story revealed through a digital treasure hunt along Manchester's waterways. Using geocaching, Zappar codes, micro-projections, live events and a flotilla of origami boats, the trail revealed pieces of a surreal tale that took in the past stories and uncertain future of Manchester's canals. Created for Manchester Literature Festival 2014 by Maya Chowdhry, Mish Green, Sarah Hymas and Helen Varley-Jamieson. Short listed for the New Media Writing Prize 2014.
LitNav short story app - http://www.litnav.com/
The LitNav short story app takes you around the world on city journeys through fiction. Listen and follow a story as it moves along an interactive map, or read the text version in the original or translated language. Includes stories by David Constantine, Alison MacLeod, Hassan Blasim, Zoe Lambert and a whole load more! My Literature Across Frontiers commissioned story 'In Zero Gravity' rides a tram through Zagreb, and was translated into Croatian by Andrea Rozic. The app is free, available for iPhone/iPad, with an Android version in the works. Created by Comma Press, Literature Across Frontiers and Toru Interactive.
My poetry is also featured on Moving Manchester – www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester ; Rainy City Stories - www.rainycitystories.com ; Poetry International Web - www.poetryinternationalweb.org
Tales from the Towpath - talesfromthetowpath.net
Tales from the Towpath is an immersive story revealed through a digital treasure hunt along Manchester's waterways. Using geocaching, Zappar codes, micro-projections, live events and a flotilla of origami boats, the trail revealed pieces of a surreal tale that took in the past stories and uncertain future of Manchester's canals. Created for Manchester Literature Festival 2014 by Maya Chowdhry, Mish Green, Sarah Hymas and Helen Varley-Jamieson. Short listed for the New Media Writing Prize 2014.
LitNav short story app - http://www.litnav.com/
The LitNav short story app takes you around the world on city journeys through fiction. Listen and follow a story as it moves along an interactive map, or read the text version in the original or translated language. Includes stories by David Constantine, Alison MacLeod, Hassan Blasim, Zoe Lambert and a whole load more! My Literature Across Frontiers commissioned story 'In Zero Gravity' rides a tram through Zagreb, and was translated into Croatian by Andrea Rozic. The app is free, available for iPhone/iPad, with an Android version in the works. Created by Comma Press, Literature Across Frontiers and Toru Interactive.
My poetry is also featured on Moving Manchester – www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester ; Rainy City Stories - www.rainycitystories.com ; Poetry International Web - www.poetryinternationalweb.org
song for a tower block - poem film
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Film-maker Glenn-emlyn Richards' animated interpretation of my poem Song for a Tower Block was selected for the Version Film Festival 2009. Click here or on the image to the left to watch the film.
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the talking cure -
spoken word track This track was recorded by Magnetophon in 2007, with Dan Gorman on harmonium, Andy Stockdale on guitar, Jack Richold on fiddle and broken windscreens, and me on text and vocals.
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