Delighted to say that Patricia Oxley at Acumen has accepted my poem ‘Hazel’ for publication in Issue 89 in September. Even now, of course, the memory still very moving – see poem below… Hazel (I) Blue Jacket She
Green
Is… Green is listening Green becomes Green is red Green beckons Green submerges Green wishes Green is born Green breathes…
Puppet on a String
This isn’t me, or is it…? I am waving, yet I do not wave. I am pulled in every direction your fingers in my dreams only a body to offer – the answer between my legs. +++ It began in
To Eynsford with Granpop
He drove a pale blue Ford Anglia, sometimes you would ride on the rear wings travelling through the lanes at twenty-miles an hour. There was a hollowed oak tree that he called the witches house and you would scream as
I feel
I feel like an advocado being cut open to remove the stone I don’t feel the knife… I feel the sudden, smooth, slick emptiness I feel as if I have neglected my dreams I feel the opposite of an oyster treasuring
Live on Stage at the Komedia Studio Theatre – 4th June 2017
Acute Psychotic Episode III – When the Change Came A brief extract from the beginning of the show… I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder twenty years ago, in 1997. Ten years later my story of breakdown and recovery was
Writing exercise – Wednesday 24th May 2017
Inspired by aspects of The Great Zoo, by Nicolas Guillen Sarah Salway‘s writing class Elements of psychology…let the pen reveal, a little… Kindness Hides at the back of the cage, secrets itself in the hollow of rocks, caves, tastes
The first show is over – one more to go…
Acute Psychotic Episode III – When the Change Came “The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods…as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.” Henry David Thoreau, 1851 I am a poet. I watch my
Brighton Fringe Press Release
PRESS RELEASE Making Connections Matter Acute Psychotic Episode III – When the Change Came A good humoured story of breakdown and recovery. Steve Walter (a Time to Change Champion) shares his personal experience of bipolar disorder over twenty years through
Heading to the Brighton Fringe 2017
Acute Psychotic Episode (III) – When the Change Came A brief but profound disorder of the mind Steve Walter returns with the latest episode of his show from the Edinburgh Fringe. The performance fuses powerful, frank, and in places disturbing,
When the Change Came – Launched at the Vittle and Swig, 15th December 2016
When the Change Came launched successfully at the Vittle & Swig in Tunbridge Wells, on 15th December with Steve Antoni, Abegail Morley and Frances and Steve on saxophone and guitar, and a lovely audience – the collection is available now – order your
Hazel – by Steve Walter
Hazel (I) All the time she’s alive she’s still alive and I can hold back the tears. Of course that endless moment has to come. It will be an ellipsis, something will go on… +++ Hazel (II) I carry remains