Musical Performance
Writing for Musical Performance
Life, Death and Everything in Between Extended performance with Powerpoint visuals and music by Roderick Skeaping.
Field of Fantasy Performance poetic discourse. With music by Matt Wilkinson 2008
Flexigesis Extended performance poetry with soundscape artist Si Walters 2007
The Purbeck Wheel a song cycle for a parish choir (lyrics) with Roderick Skeaping. First performance 26th October 2003 at St. George’s Church, Langton Matravers Dorset
Two Songs for Elizabeth (lyrics) with Roderick Skeaping. Performed by James Bowman and the English Consort of Viols at the Banqueting Hall of Whitehall Palace. June 2003
Our World of Shopping (libretto ) with Roderick Skeaping for 2002 Brighton Festival
The Elements (Lyric writer) choral work by Roderick Skeaping. World Premiere at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 1995
Commercial scripting projects for the RAC, Unipart, Home Office Fire Services Training College
Plus many children’s and schools’ educational plays
Poetry and Printed Work
Flexigesis Extended live performance recorded and published on cd
The Elements Published on the Web 2001
A Bunch of Fives Collection. Published 2002
Castaways A novel in short story form which shows how individuals react to life in a limited community in the days of global networking.
The Death of the Hurdy Gurdy Boy a detective whodunnit about a murdered hurdy gurdy player in Victorian London. With Elinor Rose Cooper. Available in all eBook formats.
The Hurdy Gurdy Boy and the New York Kidnap The second in the Ghost detective series
Feer of the Future Classic Science Fiction short story collection.
Fog Tiger A children’s novel of Chinese boxes dealing with world travel and alienation
Lying, Stealing and Cheating A manual on presentation technique based on twenty years in presentation coaching for commercial Organisationsa hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Poetry
and Printed Work
Reading at the Kingston Lacy Blossom Festival with the inimitable Abby G. acting as microphone wrangler.
APPLE BLOSSOM
A stiff breeze rakes the topmost branches
A thousand million pink and white petals
Explode into the sky.
The petals flash and shimmer
Against the blue
Tiny explosions of light.
The breeze holds them there
Playing with them
Whirling them around
Like spring snowflakes
Until they cascade earthwards
And they strew the ground
A parachute army of ballerinas
Lying defeated across the brown battlefield
But look closely
Where they have so recently danced
A tiny hard green sphere
Speaks of harvest yet to come.