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Video: Rotherhithe, December 2014
Things I’ve been up to
I haven’t blogged here for a while. These last few months, I’ve been about as busy as I have ever been. Here is a selection of recent activities. (All good, of course. It’s not polite to mention the bad stuff!) Moving flat After nine years living in Aldgate, in the heart of it all,Continue reading “Things I’ve been up to”
Secret Spots
Time Out asked me to select five secret spots in London for their readers. Here are the results.
Indy, cover your heart!
Yes, I am involved in co-organising this brilliant and brilliantly silly homage to Indiana Jones – celebrating this year its/his 30th birthday. It’s Saturday 22 October, from 7pm. Jazz star Gwyneth Herbert will open the show with a rendition of “Anything Goes” from Temple of Doom, poets including Jack Underwood and Kirsty Irving will performContinue reading “Indy, cover your heart!”
Gillie
Sun flashing in waterlogged gullies is GILLIE Bothe groundes and the greves, grene ar her wedes.
Gillie
Athens: Day Five
I’m writing this from my hotel room in Exarchia district of Athens, where very recently a number of anarchist strongholds have been raided by police, as well as cafes and bars. I witnessed one raid myself – in the next street. An enormous number of police on motorbikes stormed a house. There were several loud explosionsContinue reading “Athens: Day Five”
Mandeville / Monochrome / Voodoo
Oi, oi – the Spring 2009 issue of Poetry London is out. Amongst other things, it contains my review of Mandeville by Matthew Francis, Bloodshot Monochrome by Patience Agbabi and Hoodoo Voodoo by D.S. Marriott. Here’s an excerpt: The railway is figured as a brooding Hades, commuter trains hammering through ‘the seven circles’. Death isContinue reading “Mandeville / Monochrome / Voodoo”
How To Build A City, Wordled
Just discovered Wordle, so I put my How To Build A City manuscript through it. Click on the image below.
Tom Chivers 