Edward Picot lives in the UK with his wife and one daughter. He was born in 1958. He self-publishes works of hyperliterature and has written criticism for the P N Review (a UK-based literary print magazine), Slope and trAce. He has edited the first Slope Hyperliterature Issue (Spring 2003). His website is at http://www.edwardpicot.com
BIO
David Cameron Solves the Refugee Crisis
Dates:
Fri Oct 09, 2015 18:35 - Mon Nov 09, 2015
Too late to be relevant, and with little blue lines all across it.
YouTube - https://youtu.be/s_5OgBlHu5g
Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/141825303
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
A message from Dr Hairy
Dates:
Thu Jun 11, 2015 19:50 - Sat Jul 11, 2015
A very short (90 second) video to promote the first Dr Hairy picture-book, Sindy and the Antibiotics. As well as lovely bunnies, pictured above, the video also features a blue elephant and the most famous naughty boy in the UK.
Sindy and the Antibiotics
Dates:
Thu Apr 30, 2015 13:00 - Sat May 30, 2015
A Dr Hairy picture-book, in full colour, on lovely glossy paper!
Sindy's Mum keeps taking her to see Dr Hairy with minor ailments, and asking for antibiotics. Dr Hairy tries to explain that antibiotics aren't always required for minor ailments, and that over-using them can help to cause antibiotic resistance, but without success. Then one day, instead of Dr Hairy, they meet a handsome GP called Dr Smoothie...
To download a preview of the book in .pdf format, go to http://edwardpicot.com/sindy(cover).pdf and http://edwardpicot.com/sindy(interior).pdf .
Or if you fancy a copy for £12, go to http://www.drhairy.org/concrete5/index.php/catalogue/ .
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
No-one has the call
Dates:
Mon Mar 23, 2015 17:35 - Thu Apr 23, 2015
A poem-video produced as part of the NetArtizens project, hosted by NetBehaviour.org and Furtherfield.org.
YouTube: http://youtu.be/VIPU7EqTCuc
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/122798237
For more about the NetArtizens project, visit http://furtherfield.org/projects/netartizens-project .
First experiences of reading
Dates:
Mon Feb 16, 2015 18:35 - Mon Mar 16, 2015
In a recent autobiographical essay, “Sidestepping the Known”, published in the Cordite Poetry Review, the Australian experimental writer and new media artist Mez Breeze recollects a formative experience from her early years:
‘When I was in my late primary school years, I was shunted into an accelerated reading program… As part of this program it was decided that I should be given special privileges in order to join the primary public library… I grabbed the first three books located there [that I could reach], all by an author I hadn’t ever heard of: Brian Aldiss. The section I had stumbled into was Science Fiction. This simple act of selecting those books [written in a genre that would soon become an enduring favourite] shifted something. My life trajectory tilted…’
What are your first/most formative memories of reading and encountering books? Was it in a library, a bookshop, or exploring the bookshelves at home? You can send me entries by email (edward@edwardpicot.com) or post them as comments to a special page I've set up on my blog: http://edwardpicot.com/blog/first-experiences-of-reading/.
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
