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Cycles of Trauma and Creation in Kate Bush’s “Get Out Of My House”

This article is dedicated to a wonderful painter. You will find circles, animals and peace.

The Two Styles of The Dreaming

Kate Bush’s 1982 release “The Dreaming” is an album which may, lyrically, be divided into two converging strands. There are “role play” tracks (There Goes a Tenner, Pull Out The Pin, The Dreaming, Houdini and Night of the Swallow), and there are existential, personal tracks (Sat in your Lap, Leav...

Click on the image to take you to the Bradford Fringe Festival eventbrite page. The live stream will be at 3pm UK time on Wednesday 7/7. You will be able to access the link to it throughout the festival.

See you there!

By way of a book launch…

Fancy hearing me read extracts from my new novel ‘Unfinished Paintings’? If so, HERE’s your chance! I’ll be on live stream as part of Bradford Fringe Festival (3pm UK time, 7th July). Tickets available from the festival website. If you can’t make it for the live event, a link will be available throughout the duration of the festival.

I’m super chuffed to have the opportunity to read for you all, and to take part in such an exciting festival. The organisers have pe...

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Published in 1927, Hermann Hesse’s tenth novel, tells the story of Harry Halle (HH… ), an ageing former scholar, struggling to come to terms with both his internal demons and the changing world at large. It is a book of crisis, both personal and societal. Indeed, it may be seen as a re-writing of the collection of poetry – Krisis – Hesse published in 1926. Haller is a figure resigned to the nightmare he knows is coming across Europe. He made a stand for the old culture, he really did. He l...

Angel of Melancholy (after Dürer) – ink on paper: Gavin JonesThree Quotes on Melancholy: Plath, Wilde, Lorca

The Angel of Melancholy is the central figure in Albrecht Dürer’s print ‘Melencholia I’, of 1514. Throughout the work are symbols related to different aspects of the melancholic humour. The print, housed in the British Museum, features in the novel ‘Unfinished Paintings’.

“I laugh and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.” Sylvia...

A Conversation – ink on paper: Gavin Jones Transcript excerpt from my audio diary, May 1999

“I’m in Satsuma restaurant, just around the corner from Old Compton Street. Last Friday… a week ago, in fact… the bomb went off. I’m eating a veggie bento box and outside at the moment there’s a service going on to the people who died… there are people crying… people hugging… it’s a coming together.
Last week I came out of work and… I stopped at the end of Old Compton Street and decided – rather tha...