My collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa. You can read more about this and other publications here, along with poems, details of forthcoming readings and the odd snippet of news.
Readings - details here.
Next reading: Winter Fuel, The Duchess in Battersea, Tuesday 1 December.
Photos from Verbatim Book Store reading, Stellenbosch.
Critical Perspective by Alex Pryce on British Council Contemporary Writers Site.
New work in Succour, and forthcoming in Dreamcatcher and Magma.
'The Buried Butterfly' on Poetry Daily.
Reviews for A Fold in the Map:
The Mail & Guardian (SA)
The Times - one of Elaine Feinstein's books of the year
Days of Miracle and Wonder
The grass is full of codes.
The signs are everywhere:
used condom, apple core, a baby’s sock.
You might suppose this is just rubbish
left by lovers, picknickers, and last night’s yobs
but I know better:
objects in your path are never
without some significance.
A trail of crumbs, a rusty lamp, a shiny bean –
you must be quick to recognise the hand of fate
and so I’m walking clockwise
round the Common, seven times seven
before the dawn, deciphering;
hoping the crumpled Irn Bru tin,
the globe of shiny foil,
the punctuation of the smoked-down stubs
(each one uniquely marked)
will open up the world and its great mystery to me.
For if the mountains are proclaiming glory
but they can’t be seen
what is it that the scattered litter here is whispering?
This poem first appeared in The Paris Review.