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New Media pieces:

Gilgamesh - a puppet-animation based on the Sumerian Epic of Giilgamesh.

The Problem of Health Care - a Flash cartoon satirising the UK Government's proposed reforms of the NHS.

Psychedelic Pie - a psychedelic video with psychedelic music, almost entirely assembled from materials found on the Web.

Friday Morning at the Surgery - A short Flash "poem" about surgery work. The accompanying music was developed using Andre Michelle's lovely Tonematrix.

Black or White (The Gravy Version) - Michael Jackson's "Black or White" rewritten as a song about gravy. A funky video made with the help of my daughter Rachel (known on YouTube as HoolaHoopKid).

The BP/Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, a response to the April 2010 environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dr Hairy in: a series of 10-minute puppet-videos about the NHS, published on this site, YouTube and DVblog. (If you want to download the version on this site, right-click the link and choose "Save link as...")

Bramble Jelly, a video about making bramble jelly, published on this site, YouTube and DVblog. (If you want to download the version on this site, right-click the link and choose "Save link as...")

London Churches, a semi-documentary hyperfiction about visiting London Churches.

Everyone I can think of who has died, a video published by DVblog.

House of Dreams, a video published by DVblog.

The Puzzle Box, a story for children.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, a Flash-animated version of Wallace Stevens' famous poem.

Train Coming, a song and video, with music by Michael Szpakowski and lyrics co-written by Robert Roth and Carletta Joy Walker. A sound-only version can be accessed here.

Frog-o-Mighty, a story in Flash, made up with the help of my daughter Rachel and using some of the ornaments from our living-room window-sill.

Some Fragments of my Mum, a Flash animation which I made to commemorate my Mum's eightieth birthday.

A Short History of Everything, a poem about then and now, in Flash.

An Unimportant Story, (Adult Content), a nonlinear story using HTML and JavaScript.

Banana Story, a short Flash animation for children.

The Greyhound Murder, (Adult Content), a nonlinear murder-story in Flash.

Don Quixote's dream, a short Flash piece re-using open-source images by diverse hands.

Triptych, a panel of three processed images about sheep.

Sheep, a short Flash interactive piece with pictures by William Holman Hunt and music by Erik Satie.

Chicks, a short Flash animation for children.

The Stream, a nonlinear poem/story with pictures. (Uses JavaScript.)

Linesland, a short Flash animation for children.

The Bonfire, a prose poem with pictures.

Penguin Memories, a very short Flash piece with audio and pictures.

The Recycling Bins, (Adult Content), (interactive short story, including one song - JavaScript and Flash)

Sweetheart's Expedition (picture story for children - JavaScript)

The Sound of Church Bells (hyperpoem - JavaScript and Flash)


Criticism:

Hyperliterature - the Web as a text

Selling the Intangible - literary e-zines and their profitability

Structuring the Intangible - literary e-zines and their layout

Self-publication without tears? - Writers with their own websites

The Unfixed Path - hyperliterature and the experience of reading on the Web

Some Versions of Hyperfiction

Linear Narrative and the Myth of Certainty

Hyperliterature - the Apotheosis of Self-Publishing?

Hyperliterature as a product? - papertiger #2

E-zine Questionnaire

Personal Website Questionnaire

Outcasts from Eden - Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry since 1945


Other Writing:

And, an abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, without the important bits.

Difficult People (extract from a novel)

A Book About Money & Sex (Adult Content - extract from a novel)

Hearing and Seeing (Adult Content - short story)

Saintliness (short story)

A Divided Life (Adult Content - short story)

Devoured (Adult Content - short story)


The Hyperliterature Exchange (my other website)