Description: free verse, spare change, loose thoughts, personal essays, poems, drones, raves, reviews, dreams, themes, head revs, short stories, interviews and inner views
free verse, spare change, loose thoughts, personal essays, poems, drones, raves, reviews, dreams, themes, head revs, short stories, interviews and inner views
I’ve been invited to take part in the ‘Imagine. The Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics’ on March 27th. I will be talking about my biography ‘Boy on Fire – The Young Nick Cave’. Because Imagine is a “festival of ideas and politics”, the conversation should be a lot more wide-ranging than usual….
Is there anything more depressing than a media scrum and the press conference that follows it when a politician is being pursued today? At the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville I witness the background reality to how politics is played out for the public’s so-called benefit – looking into a glass bowl full of piranhas pursuing their ‘Gotcha’ moments and simplistic ‘angle’ journalism.