Alan Franks
Writer and musician
Writer and musician
Alan Franks will this Wednesday launch his new collection, Unmade Roads, published by Muswell Press. Songs and poems will be performed by Patty Vetta, Charlotte Moore and Alan Franks at the Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, 4 August, 8pm.
To hear more like Government Hill, now playing, find Vetta and Franks on iTunes.
To hear more like Government Hill, now playing, find Vetta and Franks on iTunes.
August 2010
Launch at the Poetry Cafe on Wednesday 4 August of Alan's new book of poetry, Unmade Roads.
April 2010
Exclusive to this site: Read under the journalism section above Alan's report on contemporary language and dialect, The Way We Speak Now.
February 2010
As Lucy Prebble's Enron transfers to the West End, read Alan's interviewwith director Rupert Goold.
Saturday 12 September: Exclusive on Ted Hughes.
Alan breaks a great story right back from postwar London,when art school graduate Jim Downer gave illustrations for a children’s book to a friend he lived with, Ted Hughes, who promised to 'take a look'. The project seemed to die, the friends moved on. Now, more than 50 years later, the book – complete with Hughes’s verse – is finally to be published. Alan talked to Downer about this lost Hughes work, and the remarkable bohemian world that was their 18 Rugby Street home The full story is here.
Read Alan's interview with Alison Balsom.
Read Alan's interview with Andy Murray, online here for the first time.
Monday 20 April: Alan interviews Professor Brian Cox 'at the outer edge of plausibility.'
Monday 23 March: Read John the Present , the first of four new poems in Alan's Alan's poetry section.
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Sunday 22 March: Read Alan's interview with Welsh 'sex bomb' Tom Jones. Saturday 7 March.
Launch at the Poetry Cafe on Wednesday 4 August of Alan's new book of poetry, Unmade Roads.
April 2010
Exclusive to this site: Read under the journalism section above Alan's report on contemporary language and dialect, The Way We Speak Now.
February 2010
As Lucy Prebble's Enron transfers to the West End, read Alan's interviewwith director Rupert Goold.
Saturday 12 September: Exclusive on Ted Hughes.
Alan breaks a great story right back from postwar London,when art school graduate Jim Downer gave illustrations for a children’s book to a friend he lived with, Ted Hughes, who promised to 'take a look'. The project seemed to die, the friends moved on. Now, more than 50 years later, the book – complete with Hughes’s verse – is finally to be published. Alan talked to Downer about this lost Hughes work, and the remarkable bohemian world that was their 18 Rugby Street home The full story is here.
Read Alan's interview with Alison Balsom.
Read Alan's interview with Andy Murray, online here for the first time.
Monday 20 April: Alan interviews Professor Brian Cox 'at the outer edge of plausibility.'
Monday 23 March: Read John the Present , the first of four new poems in Alan's Alan's poetry section.
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Sunday 22 March: Read Alan's interview with Welsh 'sex bomb' Tom Jones. Saturday 7 March.
Check out this insightful analysis of The English Village.
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Read Alan Franks on the on the art of creative writing in the new section of his website that will be devoted to his many plays and other fiction.
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Saturday 7 February
Read Alan's interview with the 'French Sinatra'
Read more here about Alan's new book.
Saxophonist Tim Whitehead and soprano Kathleen Willison recently sang new jazz songs written by Tim and Alan at Bedales Arts. Tim is currently artist in residence at Tate Britain., a project supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Alan will be contributing some of the 'words' to the final art/performance show, about musical 'colour'.
This is one of the songs they sang, with lyrics by Alan:
Listen to the others here.
The website of Alan Franks is built and maintained by Ruthie Gledhill.