I am an award-winning poet, novelist, a freelance art critic and broadcaster. My new novel, Girl in White, based on the life of the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, has just been published. Fay Weldon has called it: “a literary tour de force”. My new poetry collection, The Forgetting and Remembering of Air is due from Salt this spring. Many of the poems relate to art.
As the Poetry Society’s only official Public Art Poet, I was responsible for London’s biggest public art poem, Eurydice, in the underpass at Waterloo.
I have written for a wide range of art publications including: The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and The New Statesman, as well as art magazines such as Art Review, Apollo, Tate, Contemporary, RA magazine, Elephant etc. I also write artists’ catalogues. Recent cataolgue essays include Alice Neel for Victoria Miro, Lee Friedlander for Timothy Taylor and Jason Martin for the Lisson Gallery, Mat Collishaw for Blain Southern.
I am currently the London Correspondent for The Los Angeles contemporary art magazine, Artillery and write a regular art blog on the cultural, critical site www.3quarksdaily.com. I also do a regular arts programme on Resonance Radio: Hubbard’s Half Hour.
My books include:
Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon)
Ghost Station (Salt)
Rothko’s Red (Salt)
Depth of Field (Dewi Lewis)
Adventures in Art:selected writings 1990-2010 (Other Criteria)
The Idea of Islands (Occassional Press)
Girl in White (Cinnamon Press)
Specialties:Writing articles and reviews on art. Writing artists’ catalogues.
Writing and performing poetry. Poetry and fiction reviews. Poetry readings. Teaching creative writing. Broadcasting.