PAG grew up in South London, studied at Oxford and the University of British Columbia. He has as worked as a freelance writer/broadcaster in Canada, college lecturer in Devon, supply teacher in inner London, and used-book operative in Hay-on-Wye. Currently Lecturer in Media and Performing Arts at the Royal National College for the Blind, Hereford.
His poetry and short fiction has been published widely. He has read at Royal Festival Hall Voicebox, Sub-Voicive, Angels of Fire, ICA, the Split Screen Conference and other venues. He has performed with numerous musicians, including Vincent Crane, Pete Brown, the Verbs, and Alphabet City. His work also includes collaborations with the video and media artist, Jeremy Welsh. As the Quantum Brothers, they devised tapes, installations, and launched poetic probes into cyberspace.
Small press books include: Directions to the Dead End (Sono Nis, Vancouver):Basement Mix (Galloping Dog); The Slow Ceremony (ReVerb); The Slow Learning (ReVerb/IRS); Fluctuations (ReVerb/IRS); Seething Vacuum Data (ReVerb/IRS), while work has been included in various anthologies, such as Contemporary Poetry of British Columbia (Sono Nis, Vancouver); Inventing the Future ( Bellhaven, Toronto); Angels of Fire (Chatto);Words We Call Home (University of British Columbia Press). A Selected Poems is in preparation.
He has also written radio drama and features (inc Ritual of the Stifling Air for BBC, The Dream Laboratory for CBC Canada, Power/Play! for Capital Radio, The Mouthpiece for Resonance FM. The Voice Collection for RTE Radio), arts and literary journalism, rock lyrics, as well as devising theatre/performance pieces for Bristol Playwrights Company, The Department of Enjoyment, and Pyrotheatrix. His novel The Qliphoth was published in 2007. Work in progress involves scripts for radio, television and film. He is the UK correspondent for Culture Court.
On-line selections from Paul Newman's print mag and small press operation. Focus on maverick sage Colin Wilson and issues raised by his work.
Shrine to the hero of free jazz saxophone.
Jean Cheesman's tribute to her late husband Vincent Crane and his unique band.
The old devil of the Crazy World still blazing away.
Babalon - Avatar of the Eleventh Hour
Shedona Chevalier's lavish cyber-temple in honour of Jack Parsons.
Andrew Sclander's excellent used-book dealership. Good man to do business with, especially if you're interested in 60s counter-culture.
A Celtic Twilight of the Paranormal and the Pataphizzical
Post-Avant American poetry/fiction e-zine/e-book/print-book node, dazzling design and range of content
Veterans of the British Blues
Evolving musings of webmeister Iain Stewart
Psychogeographics, taking the City beyond its limits...
Elegies and obsequies for old Bill Burroughs
Isabelle Baudron's INTERZONE
- five labyrinthine sites dedicated to Burroughs, Gysin and their
seminal ideas.
The outer limits of critical theory.
Mike Windus and his band of soi-disant 'fierce'n' dangle' pub rockers
Writer/musician Lawrence Russell beams his e-zine out of Vancouver Island on the Pacific Coast, featuring articles on film/music/books/media by LR, PG and rock critic Rick McGrath among others. Plus audio pages featuring mp3 drama and soundscapes by LR, PG, John Celona and others.
Peter Philpott's vast ezine and portal to the zone of alt.poetry in
the UK
Hellshaw - Writings of Barry Kavanagh
Illuminating guide to the Tree of Life
Independent Radio Drama Productions
Tim Crook's resource for radio drama production
John Robert Colombo - COLOMBO & COMPANY
Digital artist and station controller of the BUU in Bergen, Norway
The Media & Communication Studies Site
The ultimate Ballardian collector/critic
Database of playwrights and writers' resources
Alternative arts radio station, broadcasting to London and
webcasting to the world
Allen Fisher's working papers
London's remarkable new esoteric and second-hand bookshop, with an on-going programme of arcane lectures and events
Winterspells
- Arlene de Winter's esoteric blog, with an account of her
adventures while rehearsing Babalon
The Great Bear of Canadian poetry
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