News

Ethnicity and Authenticity

This is my second article for Birkbeck Writers' Hub.

Assassins, Other Wonders and Realism

This is my first article for a regular series on the Birkbeck Writers' Hub site

The Group Online Magazine

This is a hugely innovative webzine featuring links to all kinds of artistic endeavours. My story 'There Was a turtle' is in Group 5 – The Literature Issue

The Asia House Festival of Asian Literature

Poetry Evening:  Friday, 14 May 2010, 6.45 - 8.30 pm
Daljit Nagra, Moniza Alvi, Imtiaz Dharker, Kavita Jindal

Asia House
63 New Cavendish Street
London, W1G 7LP
www.asiahouse.org

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'Santa Fe' Recorded by LiTTLe MACHiNe

I'm thrilled to announce that my poem 'Santa Fe' has been transformed into a beautiful song and recorded by the band LiTTLe MACHiNe, whose first CD of poems-as-songs is out now. I'm the most obscure poet on their track list, so have a good listen to all the famous ones, especially the compelling melody for 'Mean Time' by Carol Ann Duffy.

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Find out more about LiTTLe MACHiNe ›

Listen and/or puchase from The LiTTLe MACHiNe Store ›

poetry tREnD Munich Festival

1st & 2nd July, 2010, Ludwig-Maximilians-University

Performances, translations and the launch of a German/English bilingual anthology

Barnestorm 3

23 September, 2010 | The Poetry Cafe
Covent Garden, London
7.30 pm

(click on the thumbnail for the flyer in pdf format)

Can a short story excite the lawyers?

I don't mean in a litigious manner but in an anticipatory sense. With 'Preludes and Elusions', my short story set in the near future, about a family lawyer in London who specializes in pre-conception contracts, I think I have come close. Last November following my reading at an event in the City, I spied a certain gleam in the eyes of a few forward-thinking lawyers. read more ›

Recording of Act of Faith on Little Episodes

Little Episodes is an organisation started by professional writers, editors, artists, musicians and actors aiming to use the arts as a platform to raise awareness for people who suffer from depression, addiction or mental illness.

My reading of the poem 'Act of Faith' can be heard on the home page.

The Poetry Society at The National Trust

For the Poetry Society's Centenary, the London South-West Stanza successfully collaborated with Osterley Park, a beautiful National Trust property in Hounslow, where we organised poetry workshops for families (encompassing young readers and their grandparents) and also a poetry competition for different age groups.

I was inspired to write a whole series of poems about sumptuous Osterley Park myself - both for adults and children.

For more info on the 2009 centenary events: http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/events/london

CD: And the Story So Far... Povestea de pana acum...

Bilingual English and Romanian CD produced as part of the poetry pRO project in 2009 /
21 poets and 17 translators / Includes Morphing read by me in English and the Romanian translation.

Available from www.poetrypf.co.uk