photo realism

Whitstable, July

Manchester

outcrop

Just out: a new anthology from Black Rider Press entitled Outcrop: radical Australian poetry of land. Alarmingly, Pete Spence and I are the oldest people in it. It's as polemical as any anthology of contemporary poetry is (and should be). The nineties and early noughies were fallow years in general for non-conservative Australian poetries. Here's evidence that the last few years have seen some exciting work appearing.

dangerous structure

secret soul

pub

Not just any pub: the Admiral Jellicoe on Canvey Island where the members of Dr Feelgood used to hang out in the 1970s. It probably hasn't changed much since then.

signs

Grain Tower

Dartford

canal

Limehouse