PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming 2024
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Forthcoming 2024 |
“It bears repeating” Connection and care in The Castle' -
Chapter on ‘The Castle’ in Screening Australia: Culture and Media in Context Peter Lang Publishing
‘Nick Cave: The spirit of the Duende and the sound of the rent heart
2013 - Chapter in edited collection The Art of Nick Cave: New Critical Essays edited by Dr John Baker published by Intellect
‘Jeremy Dellers The Battle of Orgreave the work of mourning and the recovery of a lost community’
2013 - Chapter in edited collection Digging The Seam edited by Ian McDonald published by Cambridge Scholars Press
‘Dammed’
Dammed was adapted for radio - and was first broadcast on Radio 4 in 10 March 2010. It has been rebroadcast a number of times since then.
‘Dammed’
2010 - Short story in Getting Up: Short Story Compilation from the 2010 Rhys Davies Prize Leaf Books, Cardiff, 2010
The judges Stevie Davies and Niall Griffiths had this to say about Dammed:
"Dammed is a monologue which evokes, in a suggestive and imagistic style, the bitterly valedictory mood of the aftermath of a death. Helplessly inert in the face of family pressure, the narrator records the breaking of a dam in an explosion of sensual self-assertion. The narrative use of imagery is striking and memorable".
Poetry
My poetry has been published in a selection of poetry zines and publications including Rising, The Illustrated Ape, and X-mag poetry magazines among others. Ive performed at poetry nights like Shortfuse, Speakeasy, and on Salena Goddens Saltpetre radio show when it graced the airwaves on Resonance FM and once with John Hegley at a strange little one off poetry night at the RCA. I don't really focus on my poetry anymore, but sometimes they pop up.. out of nowhere. Most recently: The Great British Bard-off
Collective work
As a part of a collaborative film writing group, I wrote a number of experimental short scripts over the period 2003-2005 and continue to collaborate with art collectives such as Clear as Mud.
Performance Texts
The Value of Salt
I was commissioned to write this piece by Professor Joe Kelleher from Roehampton University, who is also a member of Theatre Pur. It was for an undergraduate module at Roehampton University, where first year theatre students take a play through every theatrical process, from inception to production. As an adaptation of King Lear, it was heavily influenced by the work of Heiner Muller and Heiner Goebbels. This piece contains no stage directions.
The Car (A Eulogy)
Written as part of my BA degree, it was taken up by Roehampton lecturer, Sylvia Vickers, and staged in association with Sam Walters in a small production at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. Written about the end stages of an abusive relationship on the brink of exploding and using Greek myth within the claustrophobic setting of a car journey.