Tom Pickard

Publications

BALLAD OF JAMIE ALLAN  Flood Editions: Chicago 2007 [finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards 2007].

THE DARK MONTHS OF MAY new poems Flood Editions; Chicago, September 2004

TYNE TXTS with Bill Griffiths   Amara Imprint  Newcastle 2004

HOLE IN THE WALL  new and selected poems;  Flood Editions, Chicago, 2002

FUCKWIND new poems and songs.  etruscan books      1999

TIEPIN EROS.  New and selected poems.  Bloodaxe Books (Newcastle)  1994

WE MAKE SHIPS.   An oral history of the Sunderland shipyards with photographs by the writer.  Secker and Warburg. (London)  1989

CUSTOM AND EXILE. Poems.   Allison and Busby. (London) 1985

JARROW MARCH.  A documentary account (with poems) of the historic 1936 march. Allison and Busby. (London) 1981

OK TREE.  Poems.  Pig Press. (Durham) 1980

HERO DUST.  New and selected poems.  Allison and Busby. (London) 1979

DANCING UNDER FIRE.  A long poem.  Middle Earth Books (New York) 1973

THE ORDER OF CHANCE.  Poetry.  Fulcrum Press, (London) & Horizon Books (New York) 1971

GUTTERSNIPE.  A novella.  City Lights Books,  (San Francisco). 1971

HIGH ON THE WALLS.   Poetry.  Fulcrum Press (London)  & Horizon Books (New York)1969.

Work published in many anthologies and periodicals in Mexico, USA, Germany, Russia, Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia  Occasional contributions to Modern Painters, New Statesman & Society, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian. The Bulletin (Australia), The Independent, Square One, Chicago Review, London Magazine and other publications

Libretto

THE BALLAD OF JAMIE ALLAN;  a libretto for the composer John Harle commissioned in 2004 by The Sage Gateshead and performed there April 2005 with; Omar Ebrihim, Sarah Jane Morris, Kathryn Tickell, Neil MacColl, Steve Lodder, and the Northern Sinfonia.

Jamie Allan was a great 18thc gypsy piper who died in Durham jail serving a life sentence for horse theft.

Television/film

TV BALLADS: On The Job  Welsh BAFTA 1995. Best Music Programme.  A series on modern folk music. Programme 2 was written and presented by Tom Pickard. On The Job is an essay on work impacted by new technologies, illustrated with TP’s poetry. BBC1 Wales.  Writer/Presenter. BBC2  1995.

 THE SHADOW AND THE SUBSTANCE  The meaning and future of work; and the impact of technology; with interviews poetry and music.  50 minutes. Double Exposure for Channel 4 1994.  Writer/producer-director/presenter

BIRMINGHAM IS WHAT I THINK WITH  A film on poet/jazz pianist Roy Fisher. The film includes extracts from a live jazz concert.., a 50-minute 1991 Pallion Productions for Arts Council Great Britain. Director/Producer 

 “How could anyone get poetic about Birmingham?” Valdemare Januszczek. C4 commissioning editor. A

FINNEGAN'S HAKE A celebration of the Cornish fishing industry. 3x 25 minutes. Music, poetry and interviews. Television South West. (TSW) Writer/Director 1990/91

WORD OF MOUTH. Gold medal at the New York International Film and TV Festival for  Best Performing Arts series, 1990. Also runner up in Royal Television Society awards. An international poetry series hosted by John Hegley. Ten 30-minute studio-based programmes with film inserts. Border Television/ Arts Council of Great Britain/ITV  network.  Series Editor and Director of film inserts.