READINGS AND ANTHOLOGIES

 It was in Vienna, where he lived for seventeen years, that Martin Huxter started to devote more time to writing poetry. Often using the heteronym Homemade Gordon Banks, he took part in many readings and performances with the poetry group Labyrinth. Combining art with poetry, he has organized several poetry readings at exhibitions including A Room of My Own in 2005 and Twixt, Slipper and Lip in 2007 both at the Imperial Furniture Museum, Vienna, and God: The Fossil Record at the Stadtmuseum, Sankt Pölten, Austria, in 2009. In 2007, the poem Last Glimpse of Kim Shine won second prize in the People and Places poetry competition organized by Aesthetica Magazine and the Vienna Lit Festival. His poems have appeared in the anthologies Pressed by Unseen Feet and Still Life with Wine and Cheese (Stairwell Books, York), Vienna Views (Luftschacht, Vienna) and tor, ort, rot (2014) edited by Dieter Berdel and Heinz Pusitz and published by Edition lex liszt 12 (Austria). In 2021 Huxter’s poem The Pequod was awarded first prize at the 3am Project organized by ‘It’s Not Your Birthday But…’ and the Surrey History Centre. He is currently working on an illustrated book of poems about birds.