The Poetree

The Poetree was the first installation I did and it began when I decided to hang some poems on a tree and busk, playing my recorder and wearing my stilts, doing handstands in the splits. It looked impressive but was very easy to do because the stilts balanced you ! I made enough money to buy lobsters and fizz for lunch and thought "This is the life for me !"

Then I created the copper Poetree so I could take it with me and set up anywhere - I've serenaded people with it at, amongst other places, railway platforms, next to a Cornish tin mine, in posh art galleries, at a Mexican café, in the bookshops of Paris, during the opening celebrations of the Venice Biennale, on beaches, at a lover's day festival in Barcelona, at Glastonbury, and at literary festivals both here and abroad.

Other installation/performances have included an edible poetry/art exhibition, the Phone a Poem phone booth and the Poetry Post who offer a special delivery of poems and serenades.

At our TipofyourTongue festival we had a whole bazaar of installations including the Poetry Fruit machine, and the Limerick Lay-by.

See Gallery for more pics.