• Co-authored article in Public Libraries Journal about Fulfilling their Potential Yorkshire and Humberside project, summer 2008..
• Wrote linking script for a schools’ singing event (Time to Sing project) for Cheltenham Music Festival, summer 2008.
• Cheltenham Literature Festival: Commissioned for Words on Walkabout event, 2001. This involved walking around Cheltenham from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., writing about anything inspired by the walk, and performing the resulting 10-minute poem at 3 p.m. Since then, I have been commissioned as a railway poet (2002), poet in shoe shops (2003), litter poet (2004), poet in laundrettes (2005), betting shop poet (2006), poet in changing rooms (2007) and poet with families (2008).
• Gathered and wrote reminiscence material about the Gloucestershire floods
for Gloucestershire Libraries and Archives, September 2007.
• Wrote linking script for a schools’ singing event (Amerisong project)
for Cheltenham Music Festival, summer 2007.
• One-act play, Don’t give it another thought, awarded Gloucestershire
Dramatic Association prize for best one-act play, 2005-2006, and Best Original
Play prize as part of Cheltenham One-Act Play Festival, 2007.
• Various commissions, 1998 - 2006, to celebrate birthdays, weddings,
anniversaries, etc.
• Commissioned to write poems for English and Danish football fans as
international friendly football match poet, in London and Copenhagen, August
2005.
• Published first collection of poems, Where edges meet, spring 2001;
second and third collections (Tightrope and Edgeways), summer 2005.
• Commissioned (2001) by Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum to write poems
connected with exhibits for use in a Big Book to be used by Outreach and Education
Department.
• Cheltenham Literature Festival: commissioned to write instant collaborative
poetry in different places around Cheltenham - poet in shoe shops (2003), litter
poet (2004), poet in laundrettes (2005), betting shop poet (2006) and poet in
changing rooms (2007).
• Cheltenham Literature Festival: commissioned for Words on Walkabout
event, 2001. This involved walking around Cheltenham from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.,
writing about anything inspired by the walk, and performing the resulting 10-minute
poem at 3 p.m.
• Wrote scripts for BBC Call My Bluff television programme, 2000 –
2003.
• Two poems accepted for publication by The Erotic Review - but they aren’t
all like that! Other publications include the Short Fuse anthology, and How
do I love thee? prizewinners’ anthology.
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