I was over the moon to find out recently that 'A Pint For The Ghost' is the PBS pamphlet choice for Spring 2010. The choice is awarded to what the selectors think is the best pamphlet published each quarter and my work will be featured in the next PBS Bulletin. The pamphlet judges this time round were Helen Ivory and Jacob Sam-La Rose, so I'm glad that they found something to intrigue them in my weird tales of haunted houses, roughed-up pubs and late night whisky drinking.
The show and pamphlet have also been nominated for the Ted Hughes Award, a new prize launched in 2009 to recognise a public contribution to poetry. Nominations continue until January 22nd, so if you want to put in a good word for 'A Pint..', you can do so via the Poetry Society's website here.
This calls for a celebratory pint. Luckily, the Cambridge Winter Beer festival starts this weekend, as if to oblige me!
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
I'm not dead yet...
...though you might be forgiven for thinking so. It's been far too long since I updated the blog and the explanation is sadly mundane: I've been without a laptop over the festive season thanks to chucking it on the kitchen floor at home (laptops, it seems, don't bounce).
Luckily, the new year brings exciting developments for 'A Pint...'. The show will be performed along with Robert Lloyd Parry's spine-chilling rendition of 'Oh Whistle...' in a suitably creepy warehouse location this March. The event is part of London Word Festival and you can find out more here. 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You' is without doubt my favourite M.R. James story, so I'm looking forward to being suitably terrified.
Before that, I'll be performing other new work at...
* Newnham College MCR (Cambridge) on January 22nd
* The Hold @ Oliver's Music Bar, Greenwich on January 28th (http://www.facebook.com/pages/clinic/131199806508#/event.php?eid=236876255788&ref=mf)
* VOX Sheffield on January 31st
...as well as working on getting the full recording of 'A Pint For The Ghost' finished, so I'll add some extracts to the blog as soon as they're ready.
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