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November 2022
The Ekphrastic Review  published my poem One trick, a response to Gustave Dore's Les Saltimbanques


September 2022
Three of my poems were  longlisted for this year's MONO Poetry Prize.


August 2022

For a second time The Ekphrastic Review published a poem of mine, Memory Cannot  Persist, a response to Dali's The Persistence of Memory. Thanks to Lorette C. Luzajic  and all the work she does there.

July 2022
The Ekphrastic Review published my poem, dadda, where are you, responding to Robert Rauschenberg's Factum 1

June 2021
Furrow,  the play written in lockdown with Abraham Parker, has had its  first staging as part of the Wandsworth Arts Fringe.  We will be performing it again on 9th, 10th, 11th July. 
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February 2021
The thaw has brought site visits to London's green spaces for the post-lockdown staging of Furrow, a new play co-written with Abraham Parker for Vocal Point Theatre. Hopefully, as the world opens up the first performances will take place in July this year.

January 2021
Amidst the gloom of winter's dark and a lockdown, George Saunders has offered a wonderful gift to all readers and writers to lift the spirits. Having just finished his wonderful book,  A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, I can only say thank you.

June 2020

The first draft of a new play finished; co-written - in the most unusual way -with Abraham Parker for Vocal Point.
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December 2019
Aching Parts: On the  long list for the script development submission at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
Sunday 23rd November  2019
Aching Parts: an informal reading with actors, Karen Archer, David Collings & Leda Douglas, to a small invited audience. The reading was followed by a feedback session with comments, questions and suggestions to help take the play forward.

​Sunday 12th May 2019
Haunted: a script development workshop for a new play about the two Marys, Wollstonecraft and Shelley, with young actors at LEH School for Write The Girl project. Currently in development.
Sunday 25th November 2018
The Right Kind of Violence: reading with actors George MacKay, Kezia Joseph, Adam Newington, Faaiz Mbelizi, Karen Archer & Rupert Simonian.
September 2017
​The Right Kind of Violence: long listed for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
August 2018
Mooring: Two nights performance at Tom Thumb Theatre , Margate.
April 2018
The Right Kind of Violence: long listed by BBC for Writersroom Drama Submission.
November 2017
Mooring: tour of homeless and vulnerable centre and recovery colleges, including 240 Project, St Mungo's, Bethany House (Islington), Conway House (Kilburn), & The Spitalfields Trust, culminating in a final public performance at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch on Tuesday 21st November.
June 2017
We Only Notice When It's Gone: finalist for the Galtelli Literary Prize, an international short story award in honour of Grazia Deledda.
 January 2017
Yellow Fever: an abridged version of the play directed by Alex Buranova at Microtheater, Los Angeles.
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  • Home
  • Blog
  • Theatre
    • Aching Parts
    • Take me to where the arrows no longer fall
    • The Right Kind of Violence
    • Own Goal
    • Mooring
    • Yellow Fever
    • Just Like Flies
    • Snap
    • Home
    • Vex
  • Fictions
    • Gross
    • The 7.22
    • For Those Who Trespass
    • Karaoke
    • We Only Notice When It's Gone
    • This is a story that I am going to make a story out of
    • Les Anglais en Vacances
    • She
    • La Comedie Humaine
  • POETRY
    • Unfolding
    • Street Scene
    • Said and done
    • Ingres and Delacroix share a coffee
    • If you follow the silk road
    • In him we trust
    • n.b. for Barney
    • Who Can Erase The Traces?
  • LIVEWORKS
    • Notes from a wanderer
  • News
  • New Page
  • Contact