Charles Christian's Words & Vision

New Facebook link

Charles Christian — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:47:45 +0000

I've just started up a Facebook link – you can find it about half way down the left/hand column of this blog. If you like to add me to your friends list (or vice versa) I'd be more than happy to oblige... CC

It's all about me, me, me

Charles Christian — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:15:24 +0000

Charles Christian? Who he? That's me. I'm a poet, publisher, photographer and performer who is building up a growing audience for my prose poetry, storytelling and rambling, self-indulgent, irreverent, semi-autobiographical anecdotes and narrative monologues. Yes, it really is all about me.

As well as my local area of East Anglia, I'm also now giving performances farther afield, including a gig in Greenwich Village in New York City. My own writing has won prizes in competitions and been published in magazines and anthologies however I now spend a lot of my time running the highly popular and widely read Ink Sweat & Tears poetry and prose webzine, which has also expanded into podcasting and chapbook publishing. www.ink-sweat-and-tears.com

For my day job I'm a technology journalist and editor – which is why the inner geek frequently creeps into my work. I've also been a barrister – with a serial killer for a client, a PR consultant, a Reuters correspondent, a sci-fi TV reviewer and, most recently, an art school drop-out. I live on a farm, far from civilisation, surrounded by mud, muck and horses. (PS: the photos are by another East Anglian poet Michael Figura.)

Here are a some recent reviews...

"This is Spalding Gray meets Joyce Grenfell territory – altho without the latter's songs!"

"His work walks a narrow edge that could crumble into cleverness." ...Obsessed with Pipework

"The other poet who stood out for us was a geezer called Charles Christian. His observations were sharp and telling and spiced with a fine touch of humour." ...Clueless Collective

"Very glad to have the chance to hear you in action. I really enjoyed your heartening dry wit." ...Michael Laskey

All about this blog

Charles Christian — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:25:03 +0000

After two – or maybe it is three – previous attempts to get my personal blog sorted out, I am now about to go live & start loading up material. So, what is the big idea?

As you will see from my biographical details, for my day job I already publish a couple of blogs – including one that publishes other people's poetry & prose. This blog – which you can access via either www.wordsandvision.com or www.charles-christian.com – is my own personal blog to highlight my writing (the 'words' bit), my photography and digital haiga (the 'vision' bit) and my live literature/spoken word performance activities.

If you click on the main category headings, you will see a set of sub categories (verse poetry, prose poetry etc) encompassing the different genre I'm currently working in. The 'stuff you need to know' category is for all that stuff that doesn't fit into one of those neat categories – and includes general info about the blog, news, events plus a full biog of yours sincerely. And, 'the Digital Slow Lane' – which is also this blog's subtitle – is designed to hold an ongoing series of semi-autobiographical, mini-monologues (or prose narratives) about me – and life – and me – as I've finally come out of the closet and recognised my inner geek.

I do hope all that makes sense – and that you enjoy visiting this blog as much as I think I'm going to enjoy writing and developing it.

...Charles Christian