Dream Tyne – Travels Around the North East Coast (Part One)
Robin Hood’s Bay 1 I needed to get away. Somewhere quiet, isolated. I wanted to finish drafting my dissertation in a place with no distractions. The problem was that an … Continue reading
Firefrost and Fundindelve – Travels Around Alderley Edge (Part Two)
iii -The Wild Magic Alderley Edge, or at least my Alderley Edge, exists only in my mind and there is now little correlation between the reality and fantasy Edges. Perhaps … Continue reading
A Psalm of Stone – Travels around Avebury (Part Two)
7 The lack of stones, the absence of carvings made Avebury feel somehow ‘less’. Not being able to see the sites that thrilled me as a child was a deep … Continue reading
Ardnamurchan
i -1968 When I was four years old, we went on holiday with to the exotic sounding Ardnamurchan Point on the west coast of Scotland. I remember leaving home in the … Continue reading
Travels Around Summerisle
This piece formed a part of my PhD thesis. The section this is extracted from dealt with the uncanny, the weird, the eerie, and my reactions to them. I illustrated … Continue reading
Tales From the Urban Prairie – Available now!
Click on Picture to Purchase – £12 Tales From The Urban Prairie: Stories, Histories, Recollections and Urban Legends from Kelvin Flats. In the 1980’s and 90’s, I lived in a … Continue reading
Star Shaped
Moths – drunk on nightScented stock and Jasmine licking – with helical glee – the salt condensation from goose rippled skin. Stars alive with the skittering paths of angle shades, … Continue reading
Stillborn (Video)
Another collaboration between myself and Mark Automaton. This time a fantasy about a seaside town that was planned, but never built. Ravenscar is known locally as ‘The Town That Never … Continue reading
Lullaby (Video)
My good friend Mark (quite possibly my oldest friend… In the good way) and I have been working on presenting my poetry in different ways. What I mean is, that … Continue reading
Puzzle 2
Bronze to orange blue to black Skies burn thickening Tornado stacks The vortex drops Unsummoned La Niña Returns to Oz Plastic wraps Atlantic drift Deep water stills And Churning In … Continue reading
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