Wrestling Emily Dickinson

Transgressive Poetry. That's what I'm calling it. I was sitting at Victoria Coach Station, waiting for the 9:30 back from London and...

Currently watching Clive Andersen, Sandi Toksvig and the always-good-value curmudgeon Brian Sewell discussing - or in the case of Sewell, ro...

This time tomorrow night I'll be at a Poetry Cafe gig. Five hours after that ends I'll be on the plinth. If you aren't already d...

A campaign is afoot on twitter to get people to sponsor me for my plinth gig. We've already raised quite a bit of cash collecting in Bor...

If you're here because I gave you a slip at the store today, then the first thing I have to say is thank you. Because if I gave you one ...

I really must stop over-using that Teardrop Explodes quotation, but it's damn hard not to today. My plinth appearance has been reported ...

In her preface to Robert Mapplethorpe's Certain People, Susan Sontag wrote: 'When I am photographed, this normally outgoing, fervent...