Poetry

I used to say that I rarely wrote poetry. I meant really rarely. And by ‘poetry’ I meant something I’d show to anyone else. That’s all changed now - I seem to be writing more poetry than anything else, and really getting into the performance poetry side of things. Of course, like many people, I used to write bad and depressing and ‘experimental’ (and sometimes all three) poetry when I was a teenager, none of which will see the light of day unless you can convince me that you need a really good laugh... However, I was inspired by the excellent Monkey Kettle to give poetry a go as an adult and, when they published Killing Phase a few years ago, I was inspired to keep going (slowly). Then, after a couple more (like City of Exiles and Cohesive) made it, Killing Phase was requested for publication in the all-new Monkey Kettle anthology, Now, That’s What I Call Monkey Kettle: 1999-2004 v. 1, available from Amazon (click here to order).