About Me
Philip Kane is arguably the most original voice to emerge from North Kent's thriving literary and artistic scene. Best known as an author and poet, and as a storyteller in the oral tradition, he also explores and experiments with a diversity of other art forms - working with paint, with collage, theatre, traditional dance forms, photography and (more recently) video and even "alternate reality gaming". A founding member of the London Surrealist Group (http://www.londonsurrealistgroup.net), his work ranges from the transcendent through the political to the erotic.Philip's books include 'Prayerbeads and Ravenbones' (Wigmore Press, 1988), 'City's Little Heart' (Mezzanine, 1993), 'The Wildwood King' (Capall Bann, 1997), 'Tarot' (Mezzanine, 2000), and the long poem 'Among High Waves' which was published as a chapbook by Urban Fox Press in 2004. He was joint editor of the first, groundbreaking, anthology of contemporary writing from North Kent, 'The Industry of Letters' (Mezzanine/KCC, 1996). His poems, stories, essays and journalism have appeared in a number of other anthologies, as well as in magazines and newspapers including Outposts Poetry Quarterly, Psychopoetica, Wood and Water, The Divine Animal, Penumbra, and Arcturus.Since 1997, Philip has been Writer-in-Residence within mental health services in Maidstone, Kent, running a weekly creative writing workshop with mental health patients in a hospital setting. He was also the first Reader-in-Residence to be appointed in the South-East, based at Tunbridge Wells Library, to raise the profile of books and reading as part of the National Year of Reading.Philip has previously been a lecturer in Creative Writing for Mid Kent College. For the past seven years he has been teaching highly successful Creative Writing courses, accredited by the Open College Network, for the Medway Adult Learning Service.Philip has read, performed and taught at the Kent Literature Festival, Rochester Literature Festival, River Roots, Broadstairs Folk Week, and the Halloween Festival (London), as well as at venues including schools, arts centres and bookshops around the UK. His visual work has been exhibited at major galleries in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Orlando (USA), and in the exhibition 'Left in Vision' (London, July 2007), as well as at a variety of smaller venues in the UK, Europe and the USA.http://website.lineone.net/~kittycat/html/philip_kane_-_
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