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Click here to listen to Life Class
read by Michael Yates and Marian Walker
Click on a picture to read a sample poem from any of these books and projects, then scroll down this page for further information
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Hospital projects
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From my time as Poet in Residence at Wakefield Hospitals came a project which resulted in my poems being hung on the hospital walls. Click the poster left to see one of them. |
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Leeds Hospitals were also quick to think about wall poems and patients at St Jimmy's are now faced with my poetic prognosis. Click on the poster left to see one example of these poems. |
Also at various times:
Poet in Residence in Whitby and at Wakefield Cathedral
Lyrics commissioned for Leeds Lieder concert by Leeds College of Music
Commissioned by Wakefield Libraries to write and perform poems on the reading experience, followed by publication of booklet Off the Shelf
Released Jigsaw CD of poem performances with Marian Walker.
Commissioned to write and perform for first Whitby Caedmon Festival
Founded Wakefield's Black Horse Poets and edited Full Gallop, the group's anthology; also featured in their current anthology Front Runner. Founder member of Access Poets, for able bodied and disabled poets, based in Wakefield
Performance venues include:
Wakefield Art Gallery, Ilkley Literature Festival, Wakefield Cathedral
Whitby schools, as part of the Whitby Caedmon Literary Festival; also Swinton Community School and Balby Carr High School, South Yorkshire, and Castleford High School, West Yorkshire
PJK Art and Poetry Gallery, Skipton; The Monkey Bar, The Theatre Royal Garden Room and the Add-Lib Gallery, all in Wakefield; Café Moderno and Strawberry Fields, both in Leeds; Melborne Hotel and The Love Apple, both in Bradford; Bukowski’s Piano Bar, Sheffield; and St George’s Church, Castleford.