Dalston Anatomy Poems, live at Ace Hotel, 18th Sep 2014

Full video of a 15minute set of my Ridley Road Market poems performed live at Ace Hotel, Shoreditch, London on 18th September 2014 for Local Transport event, introduced by Michael Salu.

Hammer & Tongue Hackney, November 5th 2013

“Stephen: (He taps his brow) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king.” – Ulysses, James Joyce

1. On this 5th November at the Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS, we are preparing a night of poetic fireworks in solidarity with regicides everywhere. So from 8pm, we have two talented spoken word artists for you:

Market Cafe

Food is prepared with genetically modified soya bean oil.
We can only please one person per day.
Today is not your day.

On Watching the 1st test: Australia vs British and Irish Lions 22nd June 2013

Second Half.

Stomach-gripping tension.
Do we trust the fates too much to believe
this lead will hold?
Could half-perfect Halfpenny’s half-freakish, half-time miss
be the code for the way this will unfold?

Nerves seem to have got the players too.
Bodies fly into bodies round the fringes of the breakdowns.
Errors abound:
an overcooked kick, a pass spilt
a rolling maul driving headless into touch
and then relief.

Slam on the Water II, Regents Canal-side, Broadway Market Sat 3rd March 2012

On a sunny but cold day in mid January, we experimented with running a slam from the top of the bookshop barge at Broadway Market, which turned out to be a massive success. Due to popular demand – we’re going to do it again on March 3rd at 2pm. We’re looking for poets to take part and people to come and judge them or just watch and enjoy.

Discretion

“Yes sir, well it seems you only have
one outward bound ticket for these two journeys.
May I see the appropriate section
of this second ticket please?”

To You

“The apparent causes are nearly always trivial and to the superficial eye unjustified. The theory of a few hooligans is not only dangerous but without sense. I know of no instance where a few hooligans have  disrupted a major public function, unless they knew or sensed that public opinion was either on their side or at least netural.” (C.L.R. James, Beyond a Boundary, 1963 – discussing a different riot on a different continent in a different decade sparked by different catalysts) 

Hammer and Tongue Camden, Mon 9th Jan 2012

Co-Hosting Hammer and Tongue in Camden with Michelle Madsen on Monday 9th Jan. The Green Note Cafe, 106 Parkway, NW1 7AN

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Kiss The Sky, Weds 11th Jan 2012, Hampstead

I’ll be performing at Kiss the Sky which is at Kiss the Sky Bar, Hampstead, 7-9 Pond St. NW3 2PN http://www.kisstheskybar.com/hampstead.html on Wednesday 11th Jan, hosted by Alan Wolfson and Mel Jones.

Slam at the Floating Bookshop, Broadway Market Sat 14th Jan 2pm

I’m hosting a slam from the top of a barge-bookshop that’s moored on the canal at Broadway Market during market day at 2pm Saturday 14th January. So that’s pop-up poetry at a pop-up bookshop on a pop-up market. Triple pop-up in your face. Poets come down and slam, passers by turn up and judge or watch and cheer while they eat their artisan breads and drink boho coffee-cider.