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Les Coffrets
video art

Les Coffrets is a poem sequence developed as a collection of enigmatic black & white micro-videos in collaboration with artist Matt Parsons. Each is voiced by a different performer. Find them on Vimeo.

LIMELIGHT (TITLE STILL)

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WORKS on paper
poetry

I'm slowly pulling together a collection of writings for the page. This one is from my poem sequence 'Scrublands'.

XVI

whatever I imagined
it was not this

but ah yes
how I longed

and in my longing
was I not almost ‘there’?

beside a lagoon let’s say
or a palatial pool

nymphs everywhere
gratuitous nudity

I too
perfectly naked

picking grapes from a bowl
and crushing them

between my teeth
luxuriously

(black grapes)
and smiling

(cruelly)
something like that

(from the 2020 version of Scrublands)

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PSALM
text in the public realm

In a collaboration with artist Rob Turner, I created text for his extensive community-focused public art intervention at Parsonage Place, a rural housing development at Otham, near Maidstone in Kent. The work was commissioned by the award-winning Francis Knight Public Art Consultancy.

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New live literature production

14/09/25 16:10

Directing a new live literature production

directing
Flyweight
touring production

This summer saw the preview tour of a new multimedia live literature production, written by poet Maggie Sawkins with audio/visual sequences by digital artist Matt Parsons, directed by myself. Flyweight is a poetic exploration of boxing, sibling rivalry and what it means to be human. With a particular focus on female boxing and wonderful video contributions from boxers at the Heart of Portsmouth Boxing Academy, Flyweight is an entertaining and witty production that was received with great audience acclaim at venues in Portsmouth, Chichester Fringe, Brighton and Ventnor Fringe on the Isle of Wight.

"Fabulous … enlightening, engaging, amusing … invites us to imagine ourselves as different people, able to duck and weave with the greatest." (Will Sutton, online review)

"Sure packs a punch." (Audience feedback)

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Women sparring at Heart of Portsmouth Boxing Academy. Still from a video by Matt Parsons.

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Lord Byron in his boxing gloves. One of many images created for the production by digital artist Matt Parsons.

Performance at Komedia Studio, Brighton, July 2025. Photo by Janet Ayers.