Jo Bell’s collection, Navigation has been reprinted and is available for £9 including p&p – email 
belljar@hotmail.co.uk and we will send you a PayPal invoice, or you can pay by cheque. Ian McMillan, Ian Duhig, Anthony Thwaite and others have all said extremely kind things about it.
I have many poems online as sound or video files: here are some of them. If these links don’t work just with a click, press CTRL and click at the same time.
Here’s a short video of me reading my poem Mouse from the Split Screen anthology. The poems are all about TV programmes and mine is about Tom & Jerry, but turned into a story of domestic violence because I often work with DV groups.
Next, a sequence of poems written for the Royal Derby Hospital. These are meant to be heard together, but I hope each one stands up on its own. Listen to them at Waiting: A corona for Royal Derby Hospital (there are other poems here too) or see them on the page as Waiting – Seven Poems for the Royal Derby Hospital with artwork by Diana Shepherd.
Some pictures? Righty ho. Here’s a short poem about the Three Ships, which stand on Birchen Edge/Gardom’s Edge above the Robin Hood Inn in Derbyshire.
Riverlands – the first performance, complete with ‘wobbly’ walls
My show Riverlands, written with Jo Blake Cave, will soon be on the road and this short film shows you some of our fieldwork on the river Nene in Northamptonshire. Look at my What’s On page to see where we are: or to book us, drop a line to jo@jobell.org.uk. Poems from the show will also be included in Sidekick Books’ forthcoming Birdbook 2.
Not great sound quality, but the backdrop is lovely – here’s my ‘signature tune’, The Shipwright’s Love Song, recorded by Mohammed Ali AerosolArabic after I performed with David J Pugilist at the Brit Awards in the O2 Arena. Yes, really.
Here’s a piece about the Renaissance artist Giotto, recorded in a chilly Anglesey garden. It’s called Infallible and I wish I had got my hair cut first.
Something to make you cry (or not)… Given and Received is a wedding poem, here by special request of a kind Tweeter.
There is plenty of room for smut and silliness in poetry so here is a little poem called Coming which, er… does what it says on the tin – and a very short one called Muse.
Contact is one of the early poems in the sequence I’m writing with Martin Malone – there will be many more of these in coming months!
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