For The Guardian I wrote about the ritual ‘Turning of the Stone’ in my local village – an ancient ritual that occurs every November 5th.
Vogue – Lockdown on a Remote Island
I wrote about life on a 3 mile long, 1/2 mile wide island during a four month lockdown; learning about interspecies interconnection and when it’s time to leave something you love for Vogue. Read Here.
Guardian Country Diary
I wrote about the changing of the clocks for The Guardian Country Diary
For The Fence: How My Dad Poisoned Himself Making Spitting Image Puppets
For this piece for The Fence I asked my dad to cast his mind back 40-odd years to one of the many weird and chaotic occurrences of his special effects career that spanned the 1970s-2010s and was extremely (and almost exclusively) weird and chaotic. This is how he poisoned himself while making the prototypes for the original Spitting Image… CLICK HERE.
Illustration by Viz cartoonist Davie Jones.
Feature For The Fence
You may, or may not, remember the videos I used to share of myself interviewing glittering celebrities. For The Fence, I wrote about what happened behind the scenes during my years reporting access all areas at London Fashion Week. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Click here to read.
Article For The Guardian
For The Guardian, I wrote about how the rural housing crisis has been exacerbated by the pandemic. This stretches all the way from Devon and Cornwall to the Hebrides. It’s so much worse than I thought it was, and I knew it was bad. Second homes have become a major problem—if you have a second home in an area where there’s a housing crisis you should be renting it (affordably) to the people who are currently being made homeless. Let’s hope something changes, fast. To read it, click here.
Overheard In Art Galleries Piece For The Fence
Weird, Wild and Wonderful Poetry and Art Collection
Inspired by the myth and folklore of where I grew up, Weird, Wild and Wonderful is a poetry collection I have written in collaboration with The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, accompanied by artworks by the most celebrated artists in the area. From white witches and mysterious stones to shipwrecked sailors and whistling ghosts, each poem and artwork brings the stories of North Devon to life.
Available to purchase in softcover and hardback. Click here to purchase online.
I had the privilege to research these poems through the museum’s Oral History Archives and collections, along with the myth and folklore of North Devon that has inspired the poems. There will be an accompanying exhibition at the museum, in which the art works and poetry will be able to be seen in real life. The exhibition will open to the public at the museum on the 18th May 2021 until 17th July 2021.
The poetry and art collection is available to purchase online and in the museum gift shop. We’ve priced it so that the books remain accessible to everyone, including those on low incomes.
Cover illustration by John Hurford.
Available to purchase online here. Worldwide shipping. https://weirdwildandwonderful.bigcartel.com/
Feature For Literary Review
Seen a lot of manifestos being published recently? Manifestos are in the zeitgeist again, but his time it’s different. For Literary Review I wrote about what commercialisation means for manifestos and their movements. How radical can something mass market be? Read online here.
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Suze Drives Fast
Very happy to make a return to short stories with a short published by the great people at The Common Breath. ‘Suze Drives Fast’ is about two women existing in the aftershock. About what life is like after you might think it’s all over. Read it here: http://thecommonbreath.com/blogfiction.html
