This Is The Carousel Your Mother Warned You About

Introducing the cover for my Three Drops Press collection, This Is The Carousel Your Mother Warned You About. I love the artwork, of course, with my now longtime collaborator Jane Burn, but the black bars make it look like a Penguin Classic. 
Kate Garrett said the idea was to frame Jane’s wonderful cover, because the book is a collection of paintings with me gawping at them and saying what I see.
I’d like to thank you them both for working with me again, giving their time and effort so freely. I love you both.  

Some pre-plague memories

At the launch of ‘Rosary of Ghosts’, supported by invited readers Chris Hardy, Martin Figura, he also was the most excellent compere, Helen Ivory and Melissa Lee Houghton.

Some photos of Stairs & Whispers anthology reading at University of Greenwich, taken by a student I believe. Or the tutor. It was an honour representing Nine Arches Press, if I did get in trouble with the taxman.

Artwork from The Screech Owl by Annette Haines.

My own designed cover for book. It’s very rough but it has the feel of the collection.

Images

Daniel Sluman & I at a reading for Stairs and Whispers:D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman, for Nine Arches Press. Buy it here.

Art by Annette Haines, the logo for The Screech Owl, which I dearly miss.

Teatime

I’m reading ‘Ten Poems about Tea’ from Candlestick Press.
I got it from one of those free bookshops, which is a wonderful idea.
I love the poem by Thomas Hardy ‘At Tea’.