The Year of Living Deeply 26: The skater guy

I hear him before I see him. Sometimes not even that. The proverbial person you could set your clock by.…

The Afterlife is now on sale

I am delighted to announce that my new book of poems The Afterlife is now on sale. You can buy it…

In 2014 I was invited by the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival to be their guest blogger. I have added the blog…

One of the privileges of writing this blog is inviting others to write guest blog posts. I have collected these…

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? You are close at hand yet very far away. So long since I have…

Today I have published a new Archive page on this blog. It contains links to all of the blog posts…

I love this time of year. The city still seems to belong to itself. Mornings are still mornings, not a…

I write a lot of things down. In part this is because I no longer remember anything. If I do…

I love this time of year. There is a wonderful Anne Lamott line somewhere about the welcome of the cooler…

A little taster for you. This is an essay from my forthcoming book Deck Shoes. – I was having…

– –for Peter and Amanda Carpenter Yesterday a miraculous thing happened. I took delivery of a box containing copies…

As the holiday season continues I repost this list of various found poems that I have made over the…

As the summer holidays take over I am re-posting the odd blog post from my archive. To celebrate the start…

As the summer holiday season takes hold, I am posting an old blog post or two from the archive. See…

There isn’t much left to be done. The proof reading, the book blurbs (they take longer than the poems), the…

After what feels like a very long wait since the publication of Riddance in 2012, I am delighted to be publishing…

Some of you will have seen this blog post before. It is a taster of some of the contents…

I think I am done. I think. I think, therefore I am done? I think I am. No doubt there…