Category Archives: Projects
Taste of India
This Tuesday, I’ll be jumping on a plane and flying out to Kolkata, India. Why? Because Child In Need Institute (CINI) have asked me to write an article on the work they do to support malnourished families. I’ll be finding out what it’s like to be a mother in a country where a child dies [...]
TEDx London
I woke up early on Thursday morning, stinking of whisky and ideas. On Wednesday night The Hub hosted their very first (hopefully of many) TEDx London event, where a series of fascinating speakers came to share their ideas with the world.
And it wasn’t just the speakers who had something to say. In advance, the [...]
Dear Simon Armitage,
I really enjoyed reading your collection ‘The Not Dead.’ Well, I didn’t enjoy it exactly. It hurt to read it. It hurt in the way that all beautiful things should hurt, like when you walk into a Catholic church and there’s Christ, hanging from the cross in all his majestic pain and glory with the [...]
Feliks Topolski’s Brand New Chronicle
Bohemian Squalor meets Upper-Class niceties – the essence of Feliks for only 30p
Yes it’s here. The first of Feliks Topolski’s Brand New Chronicle comes to you on a shabby little chipshop printout, together with a fullscale poster of a Topolski Original. Full to the brim of fascinating observations – sketches, poetry, illicit letters and a fascinating editorial [...]
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Bernard Matthews Stole my Faith in Humanity
I want to believe the Holocaust deniers
I want to know that no man, no matter how angry
Or proud of his nation
Could lock the door on a chamber full of humans,
Then come back later
To stack up the bodies like meat.
But then I remember how we treat our meat
How living creatures sit
Raw-bellied, swollen, stacked
On shelves, the smell [...]
Time to Chill, We’ve Got a Big Bang Already…
Last night was one of those evenings that you spend so much time working towards that by the time it actually gets there you’re not entirely sure what hit you. In a good way. Recently we’ve been thinking up new ways to promote Feliks Topolski’s amazing memoir, so as well as the launch of our [...]
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Instant Rigor Mortis
Another sweaty night at Poetry Unplugged leads to Abi’s first ever mention in The Guardian, in the amazing sentence:
“…poems mainly about sex (including one about having sex with a corpse)”
Yep, that was me. Click here to read the full article by Stephen Moss.
Click here to catch Abi performing her necrophiliac spectacular.
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Moustache?
Whoop dee whoop!
A rollicking night at Bang! Said the Gun yesterday. Abi WINS a feature length slot in September’s session (and a charming false moustache) with a poetic rap rendition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Smack My Pigs Up!
Catch her poetic vibes on September 24th at Bang! Said the Gun, The Roebuck, Great Dover Street, SE1
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Poetry on the Fort!
Just got back from a full-length poetry sesh on an island fort just off the South Coast. Lasers, hippies and amazing rugs were had by all.
Highlights for me included being able to perform next to a fuck-off huge cannon, lots of boat rides and an impromptu MC session over the top of a whole load of [...]
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And then I landed