This January I had a residency in Desperate Literature, a bookshop in Madrid. I did a reading and produced a little book with some of my poems. Send me an email if you would like a copy, or stop in at the shop if you are in Madrid.
Whenever you release one of your volumes some animal part of me, think a rat, scans it for buried reference to myself... My poem 'A Rat' is in the second issue of Letters to Barnacle. Yup, you can buy it on Etsy.
I had a chat with David Turner from Lunar Poetry Podcasts and read some poems. There's also a transcript available for this podcast, which features Matt Abbott as well. Lunar Poetry Podcasts do loads of good interviews, so you should keep up with them.
I dream I fuck an old woman and wake up more anxious than usual... I wrote a poem called Bed Sex, for the Glasgow based zine, Letters to Barnacle, which is inspired by James Joyce's filthy letters to Nora Barnacle, check it out, the whole zine is dead rude.
Forza Zine is a beautiful and thoughtful publication, put together by my very good friend Rory Porter in Glasgow. The first issue is a collection of words and pictures centred around the themes of home, place, space and exile. I am pleased to have one of my poems, Times and Places i included in it… Continue reading Forza Zine
We made this great video based on my crowd pleaser 'All the People I've Slept with This Week'. Directed and edited by James Baxter of Baxter Media.
About six months ago, my friend Louise Evans and I decided to "do a book". She sent me five pictures, which I responded to with a poem, and I sent her the same amount of poems, which she illustrated. We called the end result Exchange.We’ve printing them, binding them by hand, and having a super… Continue reading Exchange Book Launch Party!
I'm really excited to be reading at this event on Thursday as part of week of events at The Talbot in Brockley/Lewisham. Event here.
So, I wrote a description of my ideal life and my friend Louise made it all beautiful. She also framed it for me and now I have it above my bed. http://www.louiseevansdesign.co.uk
Catherine Madden 