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Shape-shifter
silent invertebrate hunter
time-traveller
on a restless tide
weightless
in an impermanent pool
Siobhan Cawson-Mooney is our current Poet-in-Residence. Every now and then we find a voice that sings to us. Those voices that show us something new - voices from out there that somehow
At first look and listen Rick and his brand of performance poetry might seem a bit ballsy and belligerent. Righteous, chip paper written rants on the state of society. Scratch the surface though and you'll find a sensitive sage, a watcher, a man who sees through the surfaces
One hand is plenty
to hold your crumpled spirit
to soothe
your troubled brow
to embrace
the one you love
completely.
One hand is
all you need
to greet and
bid farewell
to let the world know
this time
you’re waving
not
drowning
Siobhan Cawson-Mooney is our current
Robert Monk - poet, artist, performer, storyteller. Robert came to us through our submission path. An artist in from the cold.
We hoped on the phone for a chat, despite living in the same city (the curse of the stacked modern diary!) And we had an immediate rapport. Robert was charming,
The Totem
We travelled
many miles
you
and
I
rolled up
in the stiff cloth
of London’s
arthritic
winter
tumbling
into the late-Saharan
harmattan
sun-shrouded-Accra
at dawn.
We saw
fruit bats
coming
home to roost
stomach’s bulging
all drunken chatter
You
liberated
from beneath
that
We featured Seb Bance, back in October after I heard him speak about the loss of his brother, Alistair at the Orbit Brewery open mic. Subsequently Seb let me know his mum, Jenny, is also a poet and that she’s been processing loss and life through poetry too. So,
“The past is a foreign country…. Il passato è una terra straniera” Gianrico Carofiglio
1.
The walk-in wardrobe
plundered, duchesse treasures for
small, rouged pirate girls
2.
We stand stoically
the photo shivers in the
bare winter garden
3.
In the caravan
We play Gin Rummy and Snap
Soft
Rebecca and I met at Morocco Bound at a Storytime London fundraiser event for the mental health charity MIND. So, it seemed right to meet back there to discuss the project and the portrait shoot. There is something special about these small spaces filled with books that helps you open
And here we are back with Part Two of our bog old chat with model maker and book nook creator extraordinaire, Adam Casey. In case you didn't catch the first part, you can read it here...
The Big Interview - Adam Casey, model-maker - Part 1/3Adam Casey, book
