OVER TWENTY-FIVE collaborations with visual artists since 1990 have seen poems carved in wood and stone, cast in metal, etched on glass, painted on canvas, woven into embroidery and printed on enamel. One was written on the quilt of a big brass bed under Grey’s Monument in Newcastle. Another will soon be available if you’re walking in the Peak District via a QR code. I am fascinated by what happens to words when they meet another medium, the effect of another artist’s practice on a poet’s and how the result might find its way in the wider world.
- ROYAL QUAYS (North Shields) with Alec Peever, 1994
- CITY LIBRARY & ARTS CENTRE (Sunderland) with Karl Fisher, 1994
- THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING (Manchester Central Library) with Tang Lin, 1997
- STORYVILLE with Birtley Aris, 1997
- MOWBRAY PARK (Sunderland) with Alec Peever & Craig Knowles, 2000
- HAWTHORN WORDWORKS (Co. Durham) with William Pym, 2005
- MOONDISCS with William Pym, 2005
- WILDLING with Sue Dunne, 2006
- RENGA with Alec Finlay, 2003–6, www.renga-platform.co.uk
- THE MOON & FLOWERS with Chris Watson, 2008