A note on : Performing with Phil Minton & Eley Williams at Conway Hall for Small Publishers Fair

A brilliant way for me, personally, to end a wonderful experience, as it always is, at the Small Publishers Fair, brilliantly run by Helen Mitchell. So many people in Conway Hall over these two days are friends or people who have actively supported my often quite distinctly uncommercial work. They do so generously and often against their interests, I think, so I see these fairs as an opportunity to thank them. I always try to visit every table, meet as many new people as possible, and say thanks to those I know, and buy books. This year I had the chance also to have the last launch of my selected collaborations, NEMESES, with haverthorn press, by collaborating with my friends and peers I admire, Eley Williams and Phil Minton, both of whom are in the book naturally. I felt quite content, liking them so much, and liking the fair, and conway hall, to have the chance to do this, and I also realised that what I felt was that it is something that I can transition from a literary reading with Eley rooted in her wit to a fully improv free music vocalisation sound poetry piece with Phil, quite comfortably. In fact, perhaps my work is the space between those two things, both powerfully and obviously literary and poetic to me, but on the surface, for the poor audience, clearly radically different.