The teeming mass of the working class…
“I didn’t want to be in the teeming mass of the working class… I didn’t want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed…
Accept things as they are…
“For me – and for everybody else, probably – this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I’m having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I’d experienced before, then I’d…
A world of plenty…
Here’s some thinking out loud I did last year when I was working with Invisible Dust on their three-year Surroundings project, writing about vegetables. A strange but fulfilling commission. Rather than let this little essay…
What Is … Writing?
Last night (Wednesday March 8) I was involved in an event called What Is … Light? I wrote the following for inclusion in a zine we produced for the night, but we didn’t have room…
That was the year that was…
What a year, eh? Never before has Hull played host to such a party, nor its people partied so hard. 2,000 events in more than 250 venues, galleries, museums and performances spaces, as well as…
The Last Jedi…
I dislike nostalgia. I’m never sure where looking back gets any of us. Very little gets me dewy-eyed about the past. But there I was, in Vue, Hull, as the opening titles of Star Wars:…
Longing…
It gives us oxygen And gets felled all too easily Leaving us without Somewhere to shelter When the storm comes #TellYourStory
Vote with your head…
You’re not stupid. You’re intelligent. You can make informed decisions. You’re not swayed by the right wing press, the left wing press, press barons and media owners, or a media so overly obsessed with ‘balance’…
Catching up…
Yes, it’s over 10 weeks since I blogged anything about the City of Culture. That’s not because there’s been nothing going on. That’s not because it’s been shit. That’s not because there’s some underhand, devious…