I am now developing “Hours “ into a performance piece and as part of this process actor and writer Tim Crouch will read from the opening section of the book while images from the publication are projected. This will happen on 21 October 2017 at 7pm at Fabrica, 40 Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG After […]
Hours explained – maybe.
Hours formed itself. I started with the idea of writing a novel about a production manager who was obsessed with stage machinery. I wrote some short sections based on my own experiences and researched stage machinery looking for images that perhaps I could use in the novel. The central experience I was taken to was […]
Hours begins.
Well, it’s two years I see since Prey. There’s been one abandoned novel and now Hours, which is about to be printed. I have posted the first three sections to give everyone an idea of what it is but the piece is very much designed as a physical object and an essential part of it […]
Hours First Three sections
Challenging Behaviour
More chapters on the website.
More Legion of the Lost
Since I acknowledged my membership of this legion I find I am becoming more and more comfortable in its embrace. The clients at the rough sleepers shelter where I volunteer now feel like colleagues and I no longer have exert myself to keep a distance between them and me as I am one of them […]
The Fragments
Short Stories on my site plus first chapter of Challenging Behaviour
Challenging Behaviour
Finished second draft of first chapter and have put it up on the site. I worked with people with Learning Disability and Challenging Behaviour (the book circles around the philosophical questions raised by this client group) and the basic approach should be that all behaviour however difficult is based on the necessity of communication, that […]
When did giving become a sin and taking a virtue?
At the shelter I volunteer at we have just been told that the free lunches which are given to the Rough Sleepers who have no income/no benefits have to stop and we have to charge everyone including those who have no money because probably they do have some money! We are told that the shelter […]
I am a Member of The Legion of the Lost
I recently took part in a life changing group therapy session run by Mankind, an organisation aimed at helping male survivors of childhood abuse. The Eureka moment for me was when I realised that I was a member of the group of profoundly damaged men in the room; that they were my colleagues and fellow […]
Depression: the Dark Vortex
Mental illness pulls you in, it is a black vortex and deathly cold. Sitting with a close and much loved relative who was in the centre of deep depression the illness was in the room and was manifest. He needed me to sit beside him and read as he tried to sleep. And I could […]
Essential to Survival
No writing today. It’s my volunteering day at a shelter for Rough Sleepers. Spent most of my shift sorting out donations. What are needed are socks, underwear, t- shirts and jeans. None of the last two get given, which is odd. A positive flood of gloves and hats and scarves, Some rucksacks had been given […]