rupert mallin

A diary exploring playwriting. In this edition: theatre courses, psychology in plays, 1968, Silent Witness and remembering Max Wall.

A fortnightly diary on playwriting and culture. First episode: Line of Duty, the existential threat and writing an audio play. Coming up: my journey in staging a play.

An encounter with a dinosaur and all the world in a sharpened pencil: an exploration of why I like to write "through objects."

These four poems were written in the late 1970s/early 1980s and are variously about the "other side" of countryside. Includes Stubble Fires which became part of the narration for my BBC Radio 4 play 'Overspill,' 1993.

I 've purposefully left this recording rough and ready because it is, after all, live. A transcript of the poems is included.

I began writing poetry at fourteen (1967) and here are five short, early love poems.

I am presently constructing a long play set on the East Coast and am looking back at some poems from the 1990s/2000s for some 'leads'

Two young boys in the hot summer of 1959 in Suffolk.
Short, flash fiction.

Buying flowers with good intentions? Buying flowers as a gift? Buying flowers to show your love? What else could we possibly buy flowers for?

An improvised talk on May's historic failure and the state of the nation

Cock and Bell is a short poem written way back in 1977 and published in Palantir 11, a magazine edited by Jim Burns

Growing up a Leftie

Two short prose pieces by Rupert Mallin.
Joined up thinking or what political jargon really means.
At Shelley's grave, a factual piece

Here are some more poems - A Cowboy Boy, When Mr Aston was God, Whistle Blowers, Out of the Ordinary and Poetic Justice.

I'm an artist and writer living in Norwich.
Three poems: Fifty-seven pence, Pristine and Confidence