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Brian Catling was a fascinating artist, working across several disciplines. He was a writer, poet, sculptor, painter, film-maker and performance artist and his work often employed several media at once. Perhaps best known for his Vorrh trilogy of novels, Catling also worked in the short form and in 2019 published Only the Lowly, a series … Continue reading
I had the good fortune to interview Victor Rees recently about his and Iain Sinclair’s assembling of a tribute to the late great Brian Catling: A Mystery of Remnant. The book gathers a number of short stories, an essay, a play and a poem, all of which admirably serve to give readers a flavour of … Continue reading
Delighted to learn I’ve had a poem published on Poem Alone. Many thanks to Colin Dardis for selecting it. You can read the poem here.
Fitz-James O’Brien was a mid-19th Century Irish writer who, typically of the time, wrote across multiple genres and in a number of forms, including prose, poetry and playwriting. Over time, however, being a devotee of Edgar Allan Poe, and influenced by writers such as Washington Irving, Thomas De Quincey and Nathaniel Hawthorne, O’Brien began to … Continue reading
Swan River Press has just launched a major three-volume collected works of Fitz-James O’Brien. It’s the most complete presentation of O’Brien’s fantastic literature to date, and includes a large array of short stories, poems and one play, along with excellent introductions by John P. Irish that investigate the life and work of the man some … Continue reading
Really happy to see a new poem of mine published in the December issue of StepAway Magazine, an online literary zine that specialises in poetry about cities. The poem focuses on a visit I made to Belgrade in 2005. You can read it here.
It’s often the case with a long-running original anthology series that the law of diminishing returns kicks in. This is most certainly not the case with the Uncertainties books, published by Swan River Press. And I think a key factor in the continuing vitality of this series is the policy of inviting different editors to … Continue reading
Swan River Press is about to publish Volume VII of it’s original anthology series Uncertainties and I interviewed its editor, Carly Holmes, about the process of pulling together the book, her response to the stories featured, her own work, and uncanny and supernatural fiction in general. You can read the interview here.
I got the chance to interview the excellent Helen Grant about her new collection of short stories called Atmospheric Disturbances, due out from Swan River Press shortly. Her stories deal with a wide range of subjects and ideas, from abandoned Scottish manors and remote islands to petrospheres and Hieronymus Bosch, and we chatted about all … Continue reading
I’m delighted to have a new poem featured in the latest issue of Smashing Times Newsletter (September 2024). Smashing Times is an international organisation that aims at connecting citizens to the arts, human rights, climate justice, and gender equality, and it does this through a wide range of activities, including conferences, talks, art exhibitions, workshops, … Continue reading
