How We Used to Live
LOCATION: London DOCUMENTARY: How We Used to Live [2013, Dir. Paul Kelly] WORDS: Gareth E. Rees “Whenever you go down …
Jesse Hector and The Hammersmith Gorillas
LOCATION: London DOCUMENTARY: A Message to the World [dir. Caroline Catz] WORDS: Gareth E. Rees This is a fine slice …
Lair of the Saurian: An exploration of Asda’s Jurassic Car Park
Location: ASDA, Silverhill, Hastings Words: Gareth E. Rees Superstores and their car parks are generally considered non-places, like budget hotel …
The Outer Church Goes Coastal
LOCATIONS: Southend-On-Sea, Ramsgate, Brighton WORDS: Gareth E. Rees I’m honoured to have been invited to read aloud some new pieces on …
The Drinker’s London & the Poems of Salena Godden
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees In 2001 I became a weekend DJ in Filthy McNasty’s, a pub in Islington, sadly no …
London Murder Poems
WARNING – contains explicit, violent imagery. Not for the squeamish or the easily offended. LOCATION: London WORDS & PICTURES: Martin Hayes …
Beowulf in Faversham? In search of a Kentish Grendel
LOCATION: Kent WORDS & PICTURES by GARY BUDDEN It’s a compelling thought.; the monster Grendel inhabiting the bleak marshlands of the …
Dead Cats, Cold Curry & a Broken Heart at The Stag
By Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: Hastings It’s a wintry Wednesday night at The Stag, a Tudor pub in the old …
Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
[With thanks to Gary Budden @gary_budden] Across Romney Marsh rides the ‘Scarecrow’, AKA The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn, leader of Kentish …
Rectogeography: A Journey Up My Own Arse
By Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: The Human Body Times past, I’d go to the doctor with a health complaint. Stomach …