John Kinsella

We were enormously fortunate to have a visit on 6 December from Australian poet and activist John Kinsella, who gave a scintillating hour-long reading and lecture that invigoratingly mixed poetry and politics, the international and the local, ranging freely over all kinds of topics such as the link between poetry and ecology, reverse anthropomorphism and [...]

Rich Styles on Radio Wildfire

We’ve just heard the excellent news that DMU creative writing graduate, Rich Styles, is to have his short radio drama Dead Dog played on the excellent Birmingham-based literary radio station, Radio Wildfire. Radio Wildfire is a great project, run by poet Dave Reeves, and well worth tuning into. They broadcast live, and then they put [...]

Podcasting on DemonCrew.com

We’ve just added a podcasting section to the DemonCrew.com site, and we’re kicking off with Sally Jack’s wonderful national poetry day poems on the theme of games. Either click on the line on the top menu, or go straight to the poems by clicking here.