In the early 2010s I was looking for a way of making things that was not so reliant on other people. By that I mean with composition you are always hoping that someone will play your music. You give up the agency of ‘getting things out there’ and instead become dependent on other people for your artistic contentedness. Not only that, but unless the performers are up to it, a substandard rendition of your work is always on the horizon. I wanted to have no intermediary between what I do and what comes out the other side. Writing is locked in. Just as a painting is. Just as a piece of electro-acoustic music is. This was the idea anyway… Robert Creeley, Anne Sexton, Selima Hill, Roy Fisher are a few favourites. Below is a list of published poems, short stories and novels:
POETRY
‘Address Is Approximate (Nogales)‘ – Streetcake Magazine: Issue 59 (Sep 2018)
‘Eastern Philosophy’ –Streetcake Magazine: Issue 42 (Jul 2015)
‘Tides’ –The Open Mouse (Feb 2015)
‘Epiphany‘ – Ink, Sweat & Tears (Dec 2013)
‘Address Is Approximate (Copenhagen)‘ – The Open Mouse (Sept 2013)
‘Blue Screen Life‘ – South Magazine: Issue 47 (May 2013)
‘Goodbye’ – Blinking Cursor: Issue 9 (Spring 2012)
‘Double Act’– Poetry Scotland: Issue 73 (Spring 2012)
‘I Is For Ignore’ – Poetry Scotland: Issue 73 (Spring 2012)
‘For Carl Ray’ – Essence: Issue 5 – Culture Pt. 2 (Mar 2012)
‘The Cartographer’ – Essence: Issue 5 – Culture Pt. 2 (Mar 2012)
‘Zimbabwe’ – A Handful Of Stones (Feb 2012)
‘Provenance’ – The Open Mouse (Jul 2011)
SHORT STORIES
‘Memories, Dreams And Meaningless Violence’ – Streetcake Magazine: Issue 27 (Jan 2013)
BOOKS
‘The Smith Chronicles’: The Golden Circuit (Book 1), The Guardians of the Oort Cloud (Book 2), Sempre’s Return (Book 3)
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