Lucy
Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe
Magnetic Pools
Magritte's Lovers
Married Games
Christopher Barnes
in 1998 I won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 200 I
read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology
'Titles Are Bitches'. Christmas 2001 I debuted at
Newcastle's famous Morden Tower doing a reading of my
poems. Each year I read for Proudwords lesbian and gay
writing festival and I partake in workshops. 2005 saw the
publication of my collection LOVEBITES published by
Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.
On Saturday 16th Aughst 2003 I read at theEdinburgh
Festival as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.
I also have a BBC webpage
www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/gay.2004/05/section_28.shtml and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/videonation/stories/gay_history.s
html (if first site does not work click on SECTION 28 on
second site.
Christmas 2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership
sponsored me to be mentored by Andy Croft in conjunction
with New Writing North. I made a radio programme for
Web FM community radio about my writing group.
October-November 2005, I entered a poem/visual image
into the art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece
Post-Mark was shown in Betty's Newcastle. This event
was sponsored by Pride On The Tyne. I made a digital
film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands at a
film making workshop called Out Of The Picture which
was shown at the festival party for Proudwords. The film
is going into an archive at The Discovery Museum in
Newcastle and contains my poem The Old Heave-Ho. I
worked on a collaborative art and literature project called
How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews
(poet) which exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
University before touring the country and it is expected to
go abroad, funded by The Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences
Research Institute, Bioscience Centre at Newcastle's
Centre for Life. I was involved in the Five Arts Cities
poetry postcard event which exhibited at The Seven
Stories children's literature building. In May I had 2006 a
solo art/poetry exhibition at The People's Theatre why not
take a look at their website
http://ptag.org.uk/whats_on/gulbenkian/gulbenkian.htm
The South Bank Centre in London recorded my poem "The
Holiday I Never Had", I can be heard reading it on
www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=184
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