James M'Kay Author

Former Latin teacher and keen amateur chef James M'Kay has been writing and performing his poems, as well as devising and running events to perform them at, since the year 2000.Having launched a number of poetic careers from his DIY cabaret night Home Cooking in Newcastle, he moved to London in 2005 where he became involved with Richard Tyrone Jones' hugely influential Utter! Spoken Word project. He now lives at Gravesend in Kent, where he is the host of monthly neighbourhood poetry night Reverb Chamber. Very Friendly Weapon is James' second published collection of poems, the first being Quiet Circus (Vintage Poison Press, 2011).He also appears on the poetry-and-prog-rock album Follow On by Newcastle band The Morris Quinlan Experience (Round and Round Records, 2007), which gained national and international airplay and led to a live performance at London's much-missed 12Bar.