'Technically virtuosic yet direct and sensual'
The Times Higher Educational

'Each word is to be savoured like a sip of forbidden wine.'
Bina Shah - Author of Slum Child

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BEYOND THE PRINTED PAGE

POETRY PLEASE
Every Atom
John has just been in the studio recording Every Atom for The BBC's Poetry Please, which will be broadcast June 10.

WITH GREATEST PLEASURE ON RADIO 4
Featuring Cerys Matthews
Will be broadcast 16th July at 4pm. John is Cerys' special guest perfoming work from Full Blood in front of a live audience in Bristol with accompanyment from cellist Julia Kent (Anthony & The Johnsons, Solo, etc)

RAMBLINGS WITH CLAIRE BALDING
Radio 4 in Hebden & Heptonstall
Lots of chat about Hughes & Plath with a contribution from John. No specific Full Blood content but some expolaration of his life as a writer in the landscape he shares with Hughes & Plath. Listen On BBC iPlayer Archive.

EDINBURGH - STANZA SHOWCASE
John will be reading as part of The Stanza Showcase at Edinburgh this year, which takes place as part of the Festival's Spirituality and Peace strand. August 20th 5pm. More Info TBC.

LEICESTER FELLOWSHIP AWARD
John has been awarded the title of Honorary Creative Writing Fellow by the University of Leicester in recognition of his contribution to literature.

CNNWe have been told that the poem Thirst was used on CNN when the New York Police destroyed the Occupy Library.

MAKING BRITAIN
From The Margins To The Mainstream
John's portrait was featured in Making Britain - An exhibition at The National Media Museum, celebrating the successes of 21 of the most influential people in the UK with South Asian heritage.
Piece in The Guardian

The Moon Films From RECITAL - An Almanac

Written & Spoken by John Siddique
Music by Katie Chatburn
Animation Supervision & Production by Walter Santucci
Individual Animators Credited In Each Film

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PUBLISHING, MAGAZINES, ANTHOLOGIES, ETC...

Poetry Review
A new poem 'Perspective' appears in Poetry Review's Spring 2012 issue.

Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology
is available for download and distribution. John's poem Thirst appears within it.

Out of Bounds
A number of John's poems are anthologized in Out Of Bounds edited by Jackie Kay. (Bloodaxe May 2012).

Yellow Nib
A Number of poems drawn from Full Blood will appear in the next issue of this beautiful journal from The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens, Belfast - Edited by Ciaran Carson & Sudeep Sen

HarperCollins Book of Indian Poetry in English
Anthologizes a number of poems from Full Blood (Release date TBC)

Granta
‘Six Snapshots of Partition’ is a memoir piece looking at the effect of the Partition of India on John's family and in particular his father.

PRESS ROUNDUP

Pirene's Fountain
John is one of the featured poets in the 5th anniversary issue of this lovely online journal. There is a tremendous profile looking at the outsider strand of his writings, featuring a number of poems from his books. There is an in depth interview and two new poems: 'Fragment', and 'Before'.

Spectrum Magazine from Indian Tribune
The need for literature outside the mainstream, Full Blood, Sensuality and Materialism and more

India Express
On being a poet, Full Blood, Travel & Creativity

Two pieces in India's The Tribune
1) Full Blood, Travels in search of my father, Being a male muse.
2) Myth, Travel, On Being a Reader, & more Full Blood

Grace Curtis on becoming a Siddique reader
and the ideas on being human in the books.

Online interview on The View From Here:
Full Blood, Modern sensuality, Beauty myths & More

Online interview for Write Out Loud:
A life in poetry, Full Blood, Being a Bestseller.

Five Sentences with Sarah Salway
The poet finishes the novelists lines, in a very fun posting.

Guest Blogpost - Dead Good Poets:
The poetry of war & these times.

Three Reviews of FULL BLOOD
The Times Higher Educational
DAWN - Books & Authors Magazine from Pakistan
Writing Without Paper a wonderful literary blog from USA

An essay about the 'One Hundred' poems which name, with equal weight, British soldiers and Afghan civilians killed in the current conflicts.