\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0A shelf-crammer clicked out light.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Discrepancies don\u2019t shift.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Ineffectually becoming a movement.\u00a0 Earless<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0The Bully\u2019s entrenched behind contrivances.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In nauseous unprofitableness behind racks.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (ii.)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Immortal is your stress, harpingly distinct.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n No wind-up\u2019s in vista.\u00a0 Smalt,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Incandescence of landlocked pool<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Reveals air\u2019s secrets.\u00a0 A Gunshot.\u00a0 Dandelions<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Dumb-show vehemently<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Over ruins.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (iii.) <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Parody of me,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Shaved before noon.\u00a0 The blunt cloudburst<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Prophesised was pettifogging.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A few weeding tingles bristle<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Roughened at arms-length.\u00a0 A skirmishanked<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Corrugation of the applicability<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Implicating hand, skill.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (iv.)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Dead reckoned, at cross purposes.\u00a0 (Tip-top shares shaft.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Picaroons muscle-grip.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n For faith-pinning by his false witness.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Anticipated untruths clot in your head,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0A problem of sober provocation.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u2018We\u2019ll lip-homage our liabilities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0And salt-wit say \u2013 you\u2019re speaking now.\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (v.)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Peep away.\u00a0 No idiosyncrasy flares here.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Prowling mist smear is slip-slop;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Corner reminiscence \u2013 a plain-dealing smile.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The humdrum malevolence?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We too are curbed.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (vi.)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Firm standing, repudiation \u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Viciousness backing dearths.\u00a0 Scupperings.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n What did you bargain for?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0I\u2019m in a fixed foreboding of undertakers,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Well, so it peeves.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0On\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1998 I won a Northern Arts writers award.\u00a0 In July 200 I read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology ‘Titles Are Bitches’.\u00a0 Christmas 2001 I debuted at Newcastle’s famous Morden Tower doing a reading of my poems.\u00a0 Each year I read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and I partake in workshops.\u00a0 2005 saw the publication of my collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6\/1 Jamaica Mews,\u00a0Edinburgh.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n On Saturday 16Th August 2003 I read at the Edinburgh Festival as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0I also have a BBC web-page\u00a0<\/span>www.bbc.co.uk\/tyne\/gay.2004\/05\/section_28.shtml<\/span><\/span><\/span> and\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/tyne\/videonation\/stories\/gay_history.shtml<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (if first site does not work click on SECTION 28 on second site.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Christmas 2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored me to be mentored by Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North.\u00a0 I\u00a0\u00a0 made a radio programme for Web FM community radio about my writing group.\u00a0 October-November 2005,\u00a0I entered a poem\/visual image into the art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown in Betty’s Newcastle.\u00a0 This event was sponsored by Pride On The Tyne.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0made a digital film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands at a film making workshop called Out Of The Picture which was shown at the festival party for Proudwords, it contains\u00a0my poem The Old Heave-Ho.\u00a0\u00a0I worked on a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which\u00a0exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, including a film piece by the artist Predrag Pajdic\u00a0in which I\u00a0read my poem\u00a0<\/span>On Brenkley St.<\/i><\/span>\u00a0 The event was funded by The Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute, Bio-science Centre at Newcastle’s Centre for Life.\u00a0\u00a0I was\u00a0involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited\u00a0at The Seven Stories children’s literature building.\u00a0 In May\u00a0I had 2006\u00a0a solo art\/poetry exhibition at The People’s Theatre why not take a look at their website <\/span>http:\/\/ptag.org.uk\/whats_on\/gallery\/recent_exhbitions.htm<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n The South Bank Centre in London recorded my poem “The Holiday I Never Had”; I can be heard reading it on <\/span>www.poetrymagazines.org.uk\/magazine\/record.asp?id=18456<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n REVIEWS: I have written poetry reviews for Poetry Scotland and Jacket Magazine and in August 2007 I made a film called ‘A Blank Screen, 60 seconds, 1 shot’ for Queerbeats Festival at The Star & Shadow Cinema Newcastle, reviewing a poem…see <\/span>www.myspace.com\/queerbeatsfestival<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 On September 4 2010, I read at the Callander Poetry Weekend hosted by Poetry Scotland.\u00a0 I have also written Art Criticism for Peel and Combustus Magazines.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n editor@artvilla.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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