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For one night only Something Dark will be performed at The Shoreditch Festival on August 5th 2006. click
I'll
be judge of The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for literature. Best work of
literature in fiction, poetry etc. Deadline for Publishers to submit
books August 25th. To find out more click.
In late
August and early September I'll be reading at at The Melbourne Writers
Festival in Australia - got any tips send me a mail. click.
I'm
poet in residence at The South banks POETRY INTERNATIONAL 24 - 29th
October. There are some incredible poets. check out the website. click
My new column "News From The Beat" is in the 2006 summer/autumn edition of Poetry Review, click.
I’ve
finished writing and recording a doc for BBC Radio three on
the poems and life of Edgar Allan Poe to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3,
in the mid concert break of one of the BBC PROMS.
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Poetry Africa Festival. Durban November 2005
WELCOME
to my webpage. Thanks for dropping by. Its July
and its Summer In The City. England is hot, hot hot.
Just returned from the recording studios at The Royal national Institution for the Blind
(RNIB) in Camden. Recorded a couple of poems for a project called
Benjamin’s House. A whole lot of poets have written poems about the
house of poet playwright and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah.
It’s a joint project between BBC and RNIB for 8 – 11year olds,
due out January next year. In the other studio they were recording Lord
of The Rings.
Talking
of Lord of the rings I’ve put one of my poems recorded for the bbc
World Aids Day at the mermaid theatre with an introduction by Sir Ian
Mckellen, on the recording page I have put a loads of other recordings on their too.
I spent a week this month at The Hurst, the late John Osbornes house in Suffolk. I was tutoring alongside poet Jack Mapanje and novelist Rajeev Balasubramanyam .The attendees were part of Sable. Check out Arvon too. Arvon has houses around the country, including that of the late Ted Hughes adn sylcia plaith. The houses run courses each week. Try it.
And then I raced off to The Latitude Festival to do a gig, with the likes of Luke Wright of Aisle 16, Attila the Stockbroker and the incredible Saul Williams. It’s been a good month so far.
Last
year The Proms featured a 30 minute concerto written by fraser trainer
influenced by my poem called Advice For The Living. I got a recording
of the piece today - a year later.
Jude kelly, the artistic director of The South Bank has asked me to be writer in residence for 2007. Find out more. Click.
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The British
Council Offices,
London Oct 05
INTERVIEWS
Here’s some interviews that may be of interest. Here’s one with “lovesexy magazine” click here or for “Lumier” in New Zealand click here .
Interview with “amplified online” click here and one with “right here right now” click here . A review in “The Stage” click here
For my Ethiopian and Eritrean brothers and sisters there’s an interview with “Abesha.com” click here |
