Category Archives: public artbone

I know fifty pence pieces have seven sides, not five, but I still wonder if most people’s first reaction on looking at this new piece, ‘Pentad’, which has just gone into the new mini-quad outside Newcastle University’s Robinson Library, will be to compare it with that characterful coin. Continue reading →

Over the years I’ve done a whole series of pieces in collaboration with visual artists including Bridget Jones (not that one), David Annand, David Edwick and David Paton. I don’t know why so many of them are called David. I’ve worked on a variety of sites from Darlington to Ambleside, and Newcastle to Dumfries, but I’ve never really pulled this work together in terms of presenting it clearly as a strand in my writing. Yet collaboration, whether with artists, musicians, or other poets — whether on shared projects or through translations — is an important part of the way I see myself working. Continue reading →