Welcome to my website! Bardonthewire, the lovechild of metaphysical modernism and the folk ballad.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's the Phezant's Tail.
The charge sheet: I have published nine volumes of poetry; a grown up novel; a children's novel, a school play, some best-selling educational resources and written introductions and otes for two Shakespeare plays for Harper Collins. I have had poems broadcast on BBC World Service; BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC regions.
Details of forthcoming events, and regular updates on my up to the minute blog
THE LATEST BOOKS:
1. https://twitter.com/
2. https://www.poppyland.co.uk/products/B79672 The Book of Margery Kempe of Lynn (Poppyland pamphlet)
https://garethcalway.blogspot.com
3. http://garethcalway.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/this-book-wot-i-wrote-wiv-shakespeare.html (study guide to the Tempest)
Buy the book here
4. DO DIFFERENT!!! on the naughty shelf at Lynn Station! (reaching out to the world but remaining chaste!)
39 well-crafted lyrics narrating a folk history of England from Boudicca through Sir Robert Walpole to Edith Cavell. On sale from Jarrolds, Waterstones and heritage outlets.
OR HERE
Rapping BAD KING JOHN RAP from 'Doin different' at the official statue unveiling in New Conduit St, Lynn, 12 Oct 2016, as seen on BBC Look East news.
BAD KING JOHN RAP (studio take)
A slim but exploding volume of space-age love poems: ghazals, sonnets and villanelles, part of it also available as the musical concept album/ sci fi fantasy:
PERFORMING 6 Degrees of Separation; 7 Degrees of Love under this mediaeval street in Norwich.
THE CULT MOVIE CAREER!!
The showreel!!!!The One They Seek (short)
Automaton (short)
Damage (feature)
Green Fingers (trailer)
Orangutang Bangarang (trailer)
Session Man (short)
Non Starter Leader (corporate video)
Radio
48 hour long haul flight (audio)
Boudicca Invades The Lincoln Book Festival (excerpt)
Cromwell's Talking Head on Siren FM (audio)
Si Barber's 2006 photo reel (my last book before I left teaching)
Still teaching though no longer institutionalised...
LINGUISTIC AND LITERATURE AEA RESOURCES (HODDER EDUCATION) HERE
MARGERY KEMPE OF LYNN, THE VISIONARY'S TALE
and still happily parenting after 31 years
WALKING OUR DAUGHTER TO HER WEDDING IN BRIGHTON
And 50 years before that, walking up a Somerset hill - Thursday's child, a long way ago. But getting there...
vTHE BANDS...
VIDEO PLAYLIST OF GABRIELLA TAL'S 7
FLIGHTS OF LOVE
THE BABA LOVERS (MY ATLANTIC-TRANSCENDING ALBUM WITH GABRIELLA TAL) : "6 DEGREES OF SEPARATION; 7 DEGREES OF LOVE"
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