My friend Pete Silverton remembered My dear friend the writer and editor Pete Silverton died in May 2023, having had a brain tumour for some time, during which we saw a lot of each other, went for walks while he still could, railed against dangling participles and ate...
Peel me a grape (fruit) April 17, 2018 Glen Campbell picked me a grapefruitA golden globe in the green of his garden.Peeled it for me as he toldof his troubles with Tanya Tucker:She lay with him in a field of stones –Which they thenhurled at one another,To the...
Metamorphosis April 17, 2018 Picasso’s woman – an octopus.Embraced, ensnared by its fat, flat legs.Soaked, choked, she becomes it.Metamorphosis.And I dream of suffocation.Dream I wriggle free.A metamorphosisto me. C Jill...
Beached In Wales April 17, 2018 IA beached whaleThe saddest sighta way we feel.On a beach in Walesthis sunken boatnot driftwood buta skeletonweighed down, splintered by sea and sandthe weight of history 2Two years have past andMy beached whale of a splintered shiphas...
Hay Literary Festival, 2017 November 28, 2017 I was invited to speak at Hay Literary Festival in 2017 about my many films on writers, mainly made for the BBC arts series, Imagine. I talked about and showed clips from: Nawal El Saadawi: She Spoke the Unspeakable Salman...
John Singh December 19, 2016 In autumn 2011 I produced and directed a film for the BBC arts series Imagine about the traditional music of Rajasthan and, more crucially, the traditional musicians, who were finding it ever harder to make a living. They were usually low...
