BOOKLETS AND NEWSPAPERS.

Shortly after completing a very large and demanding project called Bloom98 (in 1998), I returned to the drawing board and began to publish a zine called Spine. This was a little adventure into people’s worlds, experimental and agit-prop. It also included an audio publication of 76 copies called The Legs and Head of a Horseman.

In 2001, I was formally commissioned by Hull Literature Festival (HumberMouth) in East Yorkshire, alongside a group of artists, to edit and  co-publish a newspaper entitled The River. This was a one-off paper that pooled artists and writers together to share their visions of water, river and associated Hull River environs(14,000 free copies were published).

Subsequently, I have been involved in many roles as a creative writer. Following my formal appointment as The Writer in Residence at HMP Frankland, I have created a few booklets to complement art commissions:

The first was called The Siren (2004) and features stories and myths regarding the canal navigation in Birmingham (it accompanied my seven day mythological circumnavigation of Birmingham canal networks commissioned by British Waterways).

Read the full PDF Millomania booklet by clicking here.

THE ECCENTRIC CITY – THE WORLD’S FIRST DEDICATED ECCENTRIC TABLOID NEWSPAPER:

The world’s first dedicated eccentric tabloid newspaper was launched in 2006.  I am the editor and co-founder of this publication (with Si Walker) as well as a contributing writer.

Three hardcopy issues have been published so far:

Issue 1 - The Cold Season (32 pages, b/w , 5000 copies).  2006-97

Issue 1b - The Hopefully Hot Season (40 pages, 20 colour, 4000 copies). 2008

Issue K/3 - The cockerel that beareth (May 2009). 40 pages, 20 colour, over 5000 copies published.

Click here to visit The Eccentric City website.