Author: Mike
Photography has been such a major part of my life that for many years I didn’t think about it in terms of an artistic practice, it was just something I did, and have always done. It was only when my…
My most recent poetry project is a collection entitled “Logbook Poems – Songs of the Minch” which is the result of a week-long “Dark Ocean” residency, sailing from the Hebrides to Mallaig on the Scottish west coast in July 2023….
Back in 2018 I wrote a novel called New Clone City, which was published by The Wild Word: “New Clone City is Literary Cyberpunk for Today’s Dystopian Era An urban fiction thriller set in a cyberpunk world, New Clone City…
A lot of my work is non-fiction. I have a regular “Soapbox” column in The Wild Word, an online magazine devoted to literature, poetry and politics. My writings are mostly about ecology and the ongoing period of catastrophic climate collapse…
In early March 2021 I released a CD called “Blue Balcony” with my main musical project, The Balkonians. Here’s a video of one of the tracks – “Fest Stivel”. Earlier in 2020, to combat the Corona lockdown blues, my partner…
Mike Hembury is an Anglo-Berliner originally from Portland, England. He’s a writer, musician, photographer, sailor, environmentalist and poet in no particular order. You can follow Mike on social media here: Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, as well as on Muckrack. Mike’s…