This Thursday evening I'll be reading alongside Declan Ryan, or No.12 as I know him, and Emily Beart-Albrecht at a poetry and spoken-word event in the award-winning shop/art gallery A Pop-Up Wonderland.
This looks like a great space, doing interesting things, and I can't wait to check it out.
Full details of the event are here.
POP-UP POETRY: AMERICANA & FOLK
6.30pm on Friday 20th February 2015
Box Office Stage at Kings Place
90 York Way, London N1 9AG
This event is free to attend but spaces are limited so book yours now!
Poet in the City presents the first in a series of free pre-concert poetry events at Kings Place. Acclaimed poets Will Burns and Malene Engelund perform poetry and music which nods to Americana and is grounded in folk roots. This special session takes place just before the Diana Jones + Martin Simpson concert in Hall One.
Hi all,
The events page has been updated today, in order that anyone so inclined can have a quick glance here and find out where I can be found performing my amazing 'Reading Aloud' act over the next few months... hopefully see a few of you out on the road.
This weekend I will be reading at The Albion Beatnik in Oxford.
This shop really is a place to celebrate, and it's an honour to be reading there. I've been looking forward to it for weeks.
Their blog is criminally, but fittingly, un-up-to-date, but here it is anyway...
http://albionbeatnikbookstore.blogspot.co.uk/
And this article tells you everything you need to know about the place...
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/may/13/the-albion-beatnik-bookshop
I'll be there on Saturday evening, the 13th, reading alongside Jo Bell and George Chopping. Should be really great. See you there.
I'm very much looking forward to reading some poems at In Year Ear tomorrow night.
http://www.inyerear.co.uk/events/
The previous evening's have all looked a lot of fun, and the line-up for this month looks excellent as well, so it should be good.
Hopefully see a few people down there!
I'm grateful to have a couple of new poems in the latest issue of The Harlequin.
There's loads of good stuff in the magazine, both this latest issue and previous ones. So have a good read of it...
Once, I was with a girlfriend driving south down the west coast of America. We were heading towards a town where we had decided to stop for some lunch. As we approached the town, we could see these strange brown shapes on the road and the pavements. We slowed and I saw one or two of these shapes move. We stopped and I could see the town was swarmed with huge grasshoppers. As big as rats these things were. We went into a little diner, trying not to step on any of the grasshoppers that were crawling along the pavement with us, into the diner when we opened the door. Our server told us the hatch happened like this every few years. Not regular, though. It could be seven years between a hatch, then two, then ten, and so on. Our soup was the same thick brown colour as them. When we got back into the car to leave, we had to open and close the doors fast to prevent one of these things jumping in. I can't remember the name of the town, but the last few days I haven't been able to stop thinking about it, or looking at this picture.
Here's a piece I wrote for Caught by the River about the idea of nature and landscape in poetry. It's really about why I think these ideas are important and prescient as well, living with a government in thrall to individuals and corporations driven by turning the land into an unattainable commodity.
http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2014/10/29427-will-burns-faber-new-poet/
This post on James Endeacott's blog made me feel nostalgic for the week or so that Larry Jon Wilson came over to London. It feels like a different lifetime. A few friends and I hung out with him a lot that week, and I still feel good about the fact that I got to talk to him about Arthur Alexander and guitars and writing songs. But mostly I remember us talking about cricket and baseball and how good the first beer tastes after playing sport. Larry Jon gave the lie to the old addage about never meeting your heroes.
I tell James this every time I see him and I've had a few, but I'm still thankful he brought Larry Jon over, and got a few of us involved in the shows. It will mean a lot to me forever.
http://jamesendeacott.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/larry-jon-wilson-october-7th-1940-june-21st-2010/
It's an honour to have my pamphlet be made Caught by the River's book of the month for October. I can't speak highly enough of the space Jeff and Robin and Andrew have created for writing, painting, photography, music and everything else that makes life worth living. So check it out - every day.
http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2014/10/faber-new-poets-10-will-burns/