Published work
Whilst living in Newport I have sporadically attended a monthly poetry workshop (Newport Stanza), and read out my poetry at local open mic nights. Three of my poems were published in the Stanza group’s first anthology, Wire: Elemental Emergency; a second anthology is planned for 2026, on the theme of ‘Home’.
Haiku in art
Over a period of several months in 2024 I kept up a daily practice of haiku writing. This did not last, but for the ‘Cyber Critters’ exhibition in January 2025, I included a haiku on the reverse of each of my photographs, and installed the pieces at an angle from the wall to display both sides.
I am currently in talks with a local haiku writer to produce a haiku & photography zine (his words, my images).
Found poetry
I have experimented with various techniques generating ‘found poetry’. These include early collage manifestations, blackout poetry, cut-up poetry and fridge poetry: the latter was created either with real magnets on my fridge or via an online fridge poetry generator.
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Collage poetry
Blackout poetry
Cut-up poetry
I’ve only attempted one of these so far: a poem using every word (and, I think, punctuation mark) from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. It was a little mind-blowing, but I think the end result just manages to be ‘surreal’ rather than merely ‘nonsensical’…
Fridge poetry
