Poet-in-residence

Darran Anderson




Spending his formative years locked in the attic he escaped and enjoyed a brief, but fruitful, career as a circus freak. It was later, whilst training as a cobbler, that he was lured into the lucrative, glamorous business of writing short stories and poetry. His writing has appeared in, or awaits publication with, Poetry Salzburg Review, the Prague Literary Review, Warm Angel Whiskey, Crescent Moon Journal, The Barricade, The Bathyspheric Review, Dead Drunk Dublin and the Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore. Today he spends his time making collages no one will see and music no one will hear on a dusty four-track. He has recently completed a collection of writing entitled Tierra Del Fuego, which, with a bit of luck, no one will ever read. He holds only one major ambition: to disappear into the highlands and never return.


Poems:
St. John Of The Railroad Tracks
February
Mapmaking
33 (After Edward Hopper)
Notes for 33 (After Edward Hopper) / Mapmaking
Passover
Macbeth's Doorkeeper
The Fall of Rome
The Morning After Blues
I Been Drinking Again
Jonah
Judas
Archangel
The Periodic Table
Long Life
Kahlo
God's Prototypes
Harry's Blues
Tesla's Ghost / Rush Hour
A.D. / When The Clay Grows Tall
Ezekiel / Dead Money

Fiction:
Junk
Montana
Monsoon Letter

Non-fiction:
5ive Books
A map of human experience: Ron Mueck at the Royal Scottish Academy
Beyond the Fringe [one]: Edinburgh Festival 2006
Beyond the Fringe [two]: Edinburgh Festival 2006
Borrowing the Light: Richard Brautigan
Film: This Is England
Thirty Years of Thrillpower: a 2000AD retrospective | Part Two
David Bishop [interview]

Reviews:
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men by Colin Wilson

Hydrogen Jukebox: "Listening with prejudice to curious albums."
Histoire de Melody Nelson
Rain Dogs
Songs From A Room
Niandra LaDes and Usually Just A T-shirt
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea