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Cab Ride, April 18th 2013 for Harper’s Bazaar

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:10:27 +0100

Cab Ride, April 18th 2013

for Harper’s Bazaar

Cab Ride, April 18th, 2013

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:04:05 +0100

My new video with Harper’s Bazaar about finding a place within an ephemeral world. Featuring love and New York City. Please share.

”In the third of his exclusive films for Bazaar, our roaming poet, filmmaker and model Max Wallis presents Cab Ride, April 18th 2013 all the way from New York.

The film looks at trying to find a place within an ephemeral world and focuses on New York and its walls of advertising for inspiration. It comes from Wallis’s next collection of poetry, supported by the Arts Council, written on the theme of modelling, with the tentative working title of Ephemera Turned Solid taken from this very poem.”

http://bcove.me/xm2egipd

The Next Big Thing Project - 10 Questions About Current Work

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:55:00 +0100

Amy Key tagged me in the next big thing project, where writers talk about their new projects. You can read her responses here.

What is the working title of your book?

The next one is called Jack Frost & the Swans. But that’s a book of poetry for children and it’s on its own little journey around publishers at the moment. My most recently funded book (by the Arts Council) is a collection based around modelling. The project is currently called Transparency/Obscurity but that will almost certainly change. They have appeared on Harper’s Bazaar and Mr Porter.

Where did the idea for the book come from?

I model, but really it comes from the stories you hear when modelling. There’s no cookie-cut approach to the business: there are people who fall into it, people who strive for it, and people who hate it but have nothing else. There are those who have loved within it, and lost within it, and those people that are left behind - watching the world spiral while still working in a pub in Dulwich.

The children’s book came from another funding opportunity from the Arts Council. I went to Norway to experience the polar darkness there and came back gripped by an urge to write a children’s book. It’s illustrated by the phenomenal illustrator Grace Lowe.

What genre does your book fall under?

Poetry. I’ve also been working on a novel for the past (Christ, is it really that long?) twelve years. It has a title. It involves time travel and other worlds. Let’s leave it at that for now.

Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?

The boy in Jack Frost & the Swans would be played by a young Macaulay Culkin. I mean seriously, the kid is 8 years old.

What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?

A boy wakes up in the middle of summer to find the world gripped by winter and the sun stolen by the personification of Jack Frost. It’s about his quest to save that sun. Alternatively: “It begins with a quiet storm/and a draught that wakes me.”

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

Jack is currently under review by Bloomsbury as well as Faber and Faber. Cross your feet and pass some gold over your palm.

How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?

Jack took about a year and a bit to really get it all together. Once the idea was there I wrote every day to hone it. Plus, I did a Masters at Manchester University so I worked on it a lot over there. The idea had been gnawing at my skull for another year prior to that though.

What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

In terms of poetry, it’s not so easy. The book is 90 poems that tell a full story. So in a sense it is a sequence cut up into parts. But really it’s closer to a novel than a poem. I’m quite interested in that approach.

Who or what inspired you to write this book?

The town of Tromsø helped. Really I was inspired by novels though. I wanted to write a collection of poetry that told a tale that could grip as hard as a novel could. We’ll see if it worked.

What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?

There is a Texan yeti called Hoarbeard and a shape-shifting cat-cum-bear called Norm. Ahem.

I’m going to tag:

Message for tagged authors: Rules of the Next Big Thing

***Use this format for your post

***Answer the ten questions about your current work in progress

***Tag five other writers/bloggers and add their links so we can hop over and meet them.

The young British poet making waves on the literary scene models some fashion-forward pieces

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:54:43 +0100

The young British poet making waves on the literary scene models some fashion-forward pieces

“Today your eyes/when you realise I’ve told a lie/ -...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:56:09 +0000

“Today your eyes/when you realise I’ve told a lie/ - a lie worth telling - and you laugh.” New poem for harpers soon.

A Film by Max Wallis in Association with Harpers Bazaar

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:30:19 +0000

A Film by Max Wallis in Association with Harpers Bazaar:

I made a poetry film for Harpers Bazaar about the fashion world. Hope you enjoy.

We talk about marriage for the first time

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:03:14 +0000

while I edit a Google document; consider vowels
in ‘Amen’. The half rhyme with hymn. How long
would it take to replace the words we have learnt?

Those we have mumbled. Or else, redaction,
how easy or hard would it be to rewrite time?
The sine curve of our last year: like a squirrel

that scurries across the wall. The flock of pigeons
shooed. A basket of laundry chucked from a window, see
how boxers twirl, how socks tell a story that isn’t mine?

poetrysociety: Poetry Society of America Chapbook...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:33:36 +0100

poetrysociety:

Poetry Society of America Chapbook Contest

Judged by:
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn, John Yau, and Mary Ruefle.

$1,000 prize and publication.

Accepting submissions from now until December 22, 2012.

More information here.

Dem new boots

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:45:42 +0100

Dem new boots

Photo

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:17:16 +0100

Photo

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:13:42 +0100

Home - Dennis O’Driscoll

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:36:02 +0100

Home - Dennis O’Driscoll

And empty!

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:19:07 +0100

And empty!

So early

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:18:42 +0100

So early

Perfect pre-travel/shoot food. Superfood porridge. (at Leon)

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:18:11 +0100

Perfect pre-travel/shoot food. Superfood porridge. (at Leon)

To Sam, From ParisI live by an ocean of carsand here you are...

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:29:00 +0100

To Sam, From Paris

I live by an ocean of cars
and here you are salt
on my lips, the bite
in cuts as I dive into traffic.

(Taken with Instagram at Vert Midi)

Yes or no to these shoes? (Taken with Instagram)

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:21:10 +0100

Yes or no to these shoes? (Taken with Instagram)

All of these people (Taken with Instagram)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:35:38 +0100

All of these people (Taken with Instagram)

Love: Beginnings by C K Williams (Taken with Instagram)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:57:25 +0100

Love: Beginnings by C K Williams (Taken with Instagram)

Taken with Instagram

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:34:51 +0100

Taken with Instagram