"It ain't where you go.

It's where you're at."

Writer in residence

The Royal Festival Hall and South Bank 2007

CLICK Lemn
  Latest News...

 

BBC Radio. The Today programme's audio advent calender features my contribution on the programme - a reading of the poem "Wouldn't It be Great" is in the calender for Dec 5th. You can hear it. Here. Click

December 16th 9am I will be on Saturday Live on bbc radio 4. Click

Dec 6th Launches winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. The winner is the book Beast of No Nation. Read it. Click

Portrait of an artist. Guardian newspaper Dec 12th Click.

I'm teaching Course  of poetry for a week At John Osbornes Home in Shropshire August 07. Book early. Limited availability. Click here.

ARTICLES

My new column "News From The Beat" is in the 2007 WINTER/SPRING issue of Poetry review.and the winter column is coming soon.click.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hackney London Sept 06. Pic by Toby Madden for The Independant

December 06. The month is busy. Party time. Check out the listings for appearances on stage radio or tv in 2007. Click. There's a whole set of new interviews on the right of this page. My address is PO Box 57412 London E5 9XA. And my blog is permanently up to date within days..Click.   Next year is the year of the next book published by Canongate out in October/November.

Hackney London 06 pic by Toby Madden for The Independent

I'll be writer in residence at The South Bank in London for 2007. Click. There are more poems on the poems page and also Invisible Kisses in English and in Spanish translated by professor Esther Gomez of Manchester University. Click.  H ere's a christmas recipe popular with many writers. I found it and posted it to Jamie Byng my publishers.  Click. Have a wonderful break, this season. Inshalla.

                    Banff Canada. Nov 06 With Music pic by Kathie Roller-Stell


Photos by Toby Madden (2006) The Independent

NEW INTERVIEWS

 

Here’s some interviews.

BBC network Africa Web Page interview regarding Madonna here. Click.Guardian, Portrait of an artist click. Guardian Q and A click here and for the indedependent click Here's an online one with “lovesexy magazine” click here  or for  “Lumier” in New Zealand click here.

 and a review in the paper “The Stage” click here.

 A Great Day. A photoshoot at the british library in Kings Cross, drag your mouse over the picture to see the names. Click 

OTHER MONTHS

See how this page looks in previous months - click on the month:     JULY 06, AUG 06 SEPT 06 OCT 06 Nov 06