My new poetry collection Loud Music Makes You Drive Faster is published November 1st. For a special signed, numbered, limited edition copy, please click here.
'I chuckled several times. I also frowned as I realised none of these poems rhyme'
JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH
'Accessible, witty, original and brilliantly imagined'
JONATHAN EDWARDS
'These are poems for the everyday, and for everyone. A brilliant collection indeed'
MAB JONES
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for his novella Two Kinds of Silence, Mark Blayney's first poetry collection is a tour-de-force of robot train inspectors, static caravans, museum statues and Lionel Richie songs that didn't chart. Along the way there are musings on travelling, fatherhood, falling in love and of course, falling out of it; and the intriguing historical revelation that at Waterloo, Napoleon did not surrender.
'A collection of often funny, often romantic and always fascinating verse' BOYD CLACK
SIGNED, NUMBERED, LIMITED EDITION - 64pp. Buy now for £9.99 inc p&p (UK only)
'I chuckled several times. I also frowned as I realised none of these poems rhyme'
JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH
'Accessible, witty, original and brilliantly imagined'
JONATHAN EDWARDS
'These are poems for the everyday, and for everyone. A brilliant collection indeed'
MAB JONES
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for his novella Two Kinds of Silence, Mark Blayney's first poetry collection is a tour-de-force of robot train inspectors, static caravans, museum statues and Lionel Richie songs that didn't chart. Along the way there are musings on travelling, fatherhood, falling in love and of course, falling out of it; and the intriguing historical revelation that at Waterloo, Napoleon did not surrender.
'A collection of often funny, often romantic and always fascinating verse' BOYD CLACK
SIGNED, NUMBERED, LIMITED EDITION - 64pp. Buy now for £9.99 inc p&p (UK only)
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World's First ABBA Life Coach
Photo (c) Dave Daggers
Sven is a man with a guitar and a dream. Once, he was the fifth member of ABBA - until their manager decided that SABBA was not a good name for the band, and dropped him into a life of obscurity.
Many years later, racked with guilt and sensing an opportunity for related merchandise, Bjorn Olbeyus tracks him down. Knowing that today's digital age audiences demand more than a biographical romp through silver outfits and outrageous hair, Bjorn offers his audience a complete life-coaching session to fill up his contractually obliged 60 minutes.
Now you too can be part of the dream. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find the venue where this show is playing - maybe you can hire the WORLD'S FIRST ABBA LIFE COACH!
Next performances @
DINEFWR LITERATURE FESTIVAL, 20 JUNE 2014, 8.15 PM, GRUFFYDD STAGE
LARMER TREE FESTIVAL, SUNDAY 20 JULY 2014, 1.30 PM
BRIGHTON COMEDY FRINGE, 30 OCTOBER 2014, TIME tbc. TICKETS AVAILABLE from Upstairs at Three and Ten.
For bookings, please contact me here
Watch the preview video: After being tracked down to a tiny village in Sweden, Sven talks exclusively for the first time since 1971 about his ABBA experiences. Sven is now a happy man with his own herring farm and the latest Volvo, but is still left a little bitter (in a typically modest Scandinavian way) about how he was abandoned many years ago and left to fend for himself, his only pleasures in life his fishing rod and regular shopping trips to Ikea to furnish his small log cabin franchise Volvo factory.
Clip One: The Power of the Repeated Word. Bjorn uses his powers of persuasion to convince an audience member to marry him, using one of his many Positive Outlook Opportunities (TM). Just one of the many Life Coaching Academy techniques on display in the show.
Clip Two: Some Exciting News. Bjorn reveals the thrilling news of an ABBA reunion, loosely scheduled to take place in the town of Wimborne, where by a remarkable coincidence this video was filmed.
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New! Mentoring is now available. If you want to turn good writing into superb writing, I can help.
I can work with you on fiction, poetry and journalism.
If you would like an award-winning author (Somerset Maugham Prize for Two Kinds of Silence) to help you, click here.
I can work with you on fiction, poetry and journalism.
If you would like an award-winning author (Somerset Maugham Prize for Two Kinds of Silence) to help you, click here.