This is me in performance at the Queen Elizabeth hall on the South Bank in London. I joined in 'A celebration of the people's game' which involved me reading a collection of my football related poems as part of a day of music, plays, poetry etc. I know I look a funny colour, but it was the floodlights, honest. And yes, I was over the moon.

Here I am once again in a top London spot (Covent Garden this time) where one of my poems, North and South, was selected by Roger McGough for a poetry on the buses campaign. This is the press launch and you can just about see me loitering against the bus, fourth window from the right. The highlights of the day were meeting Ivor Cutler (if you haven't heard him then you should try to) and reading my selected poem in the church where William Blake was baptised, St Peter's in Piccadilly.

 

There must be something about Covent Garden, as I was invited by ABCTales to perform (along with Eddie Gibbons and Liana Hemmet) at the Poetry Place in Betterton Street. This is the headquarters of the Poetry Society, and though I've read there before on open mike nights it was great to be invited and introduced properly as a chosen poet. We had a good time in the pub afterwards aswell!

 

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