Alastair Cook
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A quick post to remind anyone withing striking distance of Newcastle that I’m reading from The North End of the Possible at the Lit & Phil on Monday evening. The event is free — which leaves you free to spend your pennies on a sparkling, hot-of-the-press copy of the book — and starts at 7:00pm.
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Poet and fiction writer Emma Lee tagged me in this internet meme. I’m answering about The North End of the Possible, as it is certainly the next big thing in my writing life! Where did the idea come from for the book? As I think is common with many poetry collections, the idea grew out
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I love the way that visual artists see light. My good friend, the photographer, filmmaker and — although he frequently denies it — poet Alastair Cook has a beautiful photography exhibition, Analogue Decay, at the Howden Park Centre in Livingston. Unfortunately, it finishes today but, if you possibly can, I recommend you get along and
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On Saturday, the fine London-based Donut Press celebrated its 10th birthday with a quintuple book launch — Matthew Caley, Jude Cowan, AB Jackson, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Ahren Warner all launched their new pamphlets. I’m particularly looking forward to ABJ’s Apocrypha. I’ve heard him read from the sequence before and will be at the Glasgow launch
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The full programme for this year’s StAnza is now available – has been for a few weeks, in fact – and it looks really interesting. It’s not packed with really big names and looks all the more stimulating for that. I’m particularly pleased to see a strong showing of translated poets – and not all
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It’s been a day of Impossible Journeys*. I’m sitting here basking in some of Paul Thomson‘s music to accompany Claire Askew‘s poem for the project, and I’ve also been absolutely loving Alastair Cook‘s film for my poem. All of which simply stokes my already considerable excitement about the fact it’s all going to come together
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Michelle McGrane has been generous enough to offer to post a couple of poems from The Ambulance Box on her blog Peony Moon. You can now read “The Invention of Zero” and “Lullaby” on there, along with blurby bits and a short bio. Many thanks, Michelle! It’s turned into quite an encouraging week on the
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Having just worked out how to embed content from Vimeo, I thought I’d post properly Alastair Cook‘s beautiful video for Jane McKie’s “La Plage“:
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I mentioned this collection in the previous post. Here‘s* a video from the project by Alastair Cook for Jane McKie‘s poem “La Plage”. (Lovely poem. I particularly like “They will rubbish quieter worship”.) *Can’t get it to embed, unfortunately.
Amy Jo Philip 