Birds, trees, weather patterns. Professional cycle racing, odd things like that.
Music
BOB DYLAN, BRIAN ENO, THE KINKS, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Martin Carthy, John Tamms, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly. Nico, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale. Jacques Brell, Sex Pistols, PIL, John Lydon.
Beautiful South, Eminem, The Streets.
Movies
Anything with a good script.
Television
Anything worth watching, so not much. Dr Who, or any well scripted drama. (If someone says they enjoyed something on TV or a film, play, poem, novel, short story, anything, my first question is "Who wrote it?") I also like travel, science and history documentories.
Books
Too many favorites to mention. Generally Biographies and Stephen King.
About me: Jim was born and still lives near Liverpool in England. He grew up in Liverpool during the years of the Liverpool Sound and the Liverpool Poets and it is from this tradition that he developed his own unique style and voice.
He is the author of 57 books including books of poetry, books for children, and technical training manuals. In addition his CD "Down in Liverpool" a selection of poetry and music has brought Jim to the notice of a much wider audience.
In January 2004 Jim took over as Editor of the Poetry Internet site, Poetry Kit (www.poetrykit.org ) and he has been able to see its visitors rate climb to over 4000 every day.
In a career spanning 35 years Jim has been invited to read at Royal visits to Liverpool, represent his city in international events, read at events for both Liverpool and Everton Football clubs and has won many accolades for his performances and writing.
Recent awards include;
2 DaDaFest Awards 2003 – awards for Individual artist, and established artist
In December 2004 Jim won the DaDaFest Individual Performer Award for the second year in succession.
In September 2005 Jim was appointed Birkenhead's Poet in Residence to help create a Poem for Birkenhead.
Later he was honoured with the post of Poet in residence for Liverpool's Historic Waterfront and as visiting poet for New York's (US) Waterfront. A two year project to explore the bonds between the two cities.
He has been called “the best performance poet in Liverpool” and “the uncrowned king of Merseyside poetry”.
(and lots of other things.)
Who I'd like to meet: Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, but unfortunately they are all dead.
My literary magazine, The Toronto Quarterly - Issue 2 and 3 are now available at amazon.com. There's some great poetry in each issue along with some cool interviews with up and coming and more established poets. Here is the link:
Thanks again for choosing 'We Are Poets!' as Poetry Kit book of the month. Yes, that's 'We Are Poets!' available to buy from www. mucusart. co. uk/wap. htm Sorry, Jim - I will read the pdf you sent as soon as I can stop behaving like a child on myspace... !
Hi Jim, I've uploaded a version of my Glitter ball poem with added twinkles. Please ask Mrs Bennett to have a listen. I seem to remember that she liked that poem. Hope you're fab as ever HT xx
Jim, Bit cheeky this (as usual) but can you tell your friends that 'We Are Poets!' anthology is now on sale at The Sweet Shop, 8 Eagle Brow, Lymm, Cheshire. Just thought they'd want to know if they're passing! Thank you! HT xx
Hello Jim. Thank you for adding me to your circle of friends. I'm not a million miles away from you... just over the border in North Wales. Warmest regards, Nicky.
Hello Jim, Please can you tell all of your friends to order a copy of my new book, 'We Are Poets!' It's available from www.mucusart.co.uk click on litshop. You may remember that I trialled some of my children's poems at your Ellesmere Port gig - so you can take some credit for this! All the best HT.
