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 Volume 1 [M] of Marjorie, the mansplaining fauxbot I have the privilege of communing with daily, is now available in book form. This comprises Marjorie's first 100 tweets, covering everything from alligators, shamanic trances and whether tomato puree on a pitta bread can truly be called a pizza. To buy the book or read more about Majorie, click here.
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 With Comma Press, If P Then Q, Michelle Green, Holly Pester & ZimZalla
MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, Performance Room, Ground Floor, St Peter’s Square, City Centre, M2 5PD. 11am to 4pm, 12 November 2016. Tickets £3 before 1 November / £5 after The last few years has seen an explosion of new small presses and independent publishers around the country, publishing new and exciting fiction and poetry. If you are a keen reader and want to know more about the difference being a small press makes to how they work and what they publish, come along to hear from local small presses, Comma Press and If P then Q. The day will feature readings from two writers, Michelle Green from Comma Press and Holly Pester from If P then Q. More here. There's also an interview with me here and another with if p then q's James Davies here.  New from me on Peter Hughes' excellent Oystercatcher Press, a 24 page pamphlet. More here.
I have some poems from my Sublunar sequence in issue 16, along with a range of great writers.
I've got a few poems in here, plus a review of Steve McCaffery's excellent Parsival. More here.
 7 July, 7–9pm. Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London, NW5 3PT.
An evening of spoken word performance by artists, writers and poets exploring the promotion and consumption of empathy in networked culture. Contributors include Helen Benigson, Tom Jenks, Seraphima Kennedy, Ella Plevin, Flora Parrott in collaboration with Gustavo Ferro, and Sam Riviere. as Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams
he found himself transformed into Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson it’s no use staring at the ceiling, Gregor get out on your bike and connect with your people there are still diamonds in the mines of Rhodesia the beefeaters still ride unicorns and there are still crumpets for tea in Skegness one day, you will star in an epic poem about how the leopards got their spots inked in carefully with a fountain pen that fits into a pocket in your post-ironic briefcase A film by Weronika Lewandowska filmed as part of a collaboration with Weronika and SJ Fowler for the 2016 Miłosz Festival and the Enemies project, in Krakow. More here.
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