A new story in The Manchester Review, accompanied by this beautiful artwork. I seem to mention rhubarb a lot (see here, here and here), but as Freud nearly said, sometimes a stick of rhubarb is just a stick of rhubarb. Custard, however, is another matter entirely.

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I've had two new pieces published online recently: Cockatiels at Disclaimer Mag and Rabbit at The Wild Hunt. Both of these pieces result from an approach to writing I'm using more and more, utilising found material as I have done before, but less schematically, intereweaving it with written material to create something that is both and neither. I don't know where I'll go with it next, but it feels like a way forward. Maybe I'll write about something other than animals.

Out now, in book form. More here.

Count the Ways - a commissioned piece for the European Poetry Review, about loving, plus Guru, a short prose piece about charismatic leadership and vegetable samosas at Spelk.
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Very pleased to have four prose pieces in the new Confingo Magazine.

Marjorie, the mansplaining faux bot, returns with a fourth volume of tweets, here.

I was comissioned by Manchester Opera Project to write a libretto, which was performed at the King's Arms in Salford on August 3rd 2017. Above is the film of my libretto performance, featuring music by Steve Berry and Alec Newman as bear. Thanks to Mark Greenwood for filming. More details abou Crabtree: the Libretto here.

New out on The Red Ceilings press and in performance at the King's Arms in Salford on Thursday 3rd August.

The third volume of tweets from Marjorie, the mansplaining faux bot, is out now. Details here.

I've got two new poems in the latest issue of Datableed. Worms details the inner monologue of a caterer. Oak, a novella is about sideboards and forests.