Rough Music was published on the 29th September. Here's the first chapter:We’re standing, Pete and I, next to the closed façade of Aldwych station. There, in the distance, is Trafalgar Square, the crowds already massing around the fountains and beneath the column. I turn and smile but Pete isn’t looking at me; his eyes are fixed above us, at a plane that’s looping the loop. As we both watch, it climbs higher and higher, emitting flourishes of coloured smoke.Coo. Hark at me. I sound like Pathé Ne

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As I've said before, my new novel, Rough Music, is coming out in September. Its launch will be in October, in The Wheatsheaf in Fitzrovia. There'll be a string quartet then me; a soirée, but in a booz...

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“So fresh, so frightening, so hauntingly familiar.” Fran Lock “Intense, intelligent and intoxicating.” Maggie Sawkins Described as a poet who "knows the ropes", Alan Humm takes us through a wide varie...

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The river, like stroked fur,is silver in the placeswhere the wind has touched it.Tate & Lyle;Canary Wharf;the Barrier – all are diminished by the river’s breadth.The world is largerthan you think. The...

Love, Like Water Tumbling from some far-flung cloud into your bathroom alone, to sleevea toe, five toes, a metatarsal arch,it does its best to feign indifferenceto the body, but will go on creeping up ...

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For Thomas Morrow1 PegasusThe bike, the bike’s momentum and the roadare all one thing.It’s like manoeuvres:every gesturesomething that you’re swimming in.You don’t heft a gun;something within you does...

Yes, something happened on the day he died.Something was let out of the world, like airfrom a balloon. We cried, mostly, for us:for all those times the world was just an echo,dully reverberant, and he...

The Playwright's House To achieve déjà vu in a dream you should sleep in an unfamiliar room – the pungency of mint on fingertips, a smear of herbs on the lips. It should be in a house besieged by tree...

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Photograph by Brian FraserGreen Bee-eater More precious than allthe gems of Jaipur – the green bee-eater. If you see one singing tree-tree-tree with his space-black billand rufous cap, his robesall ...

Some days it looks as if I might be limbering upfor my role as a human cannonballcomplete with an athletic cup.When it comes to protecting my thingamajigI take my cue from the Good Thief and stay clos...

That Map of Bone and Opened ValvesI watched a sergeant aim, the deaf boy take iron and fire in his mouth –his face on the asphalt,that map of bone and opened valves.It's the air. Something in the air ...

On incantation An off-white hotel bedroom in the pokey heat of summer: here is our oldcalamitous melancholy, come to cull my love like a captured flag. I standnear-naked in the cock-a-doodle moonlight...

True short storyThere were two men in the café at the table next to mine. One was younger, one was older. They could have been father and son, but there was none of that practised diffidence, none of ...