There’s a problem with that title, isn’t there? While I have not been completely silent (fifteen blog posts at most?…
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Discovering Geoffrey Summerfield’s Worlds
In support of crowdfunding our new anthology of poems, No One You Know, with Unbound, Sue Dymoke and I are…
No One You Know -a new anthology with Unbound
With my friend and colleague Sue Dymoke I am delighted to announce the launch of No One You Know a new project…
The Power and Potential of Poetry
This is The Power and Potential of Poetry , the talk I gave today at the Somerset Literacy Network annual conference.…
Back to school
Every September is the same. I pack a bag for work, set off into the still warm sunshine, and wonder…
What really matters?
I was on the phone to a writer friend the other week. In itself this is a rare occurrence: normally…
On cancer as a ‘fight’
Yesterday former US President Barack Obama tweeted his support of Senator John McCain who has just been diagnosed with brain…
Lost
There I was, minding my own business, trying to sort something out via email when it would have been easier…
Ken
His real name was Crispin. Bespectacled, quiffed, bandy legged, Ken wore the aloof expression of the terminally lonely, a tilt of…
On giving feedback
I found myself in the position of giving feedback to some writers recently. The writers were teachers who had signed…
Cured
A Tuesday, appropriately. (Tuesday being the day I was formally diagnosed.) Poetic, it strikes me now. But at the time,…
On Not Being Anthony Wilson
On Not Being Anthony Wilson I haven’t always been Anthony Wilson. For a long time I wasn’t even Anthony.…
Writing in the cracks
I was having a coffee with a new writer friend the other day. Not having known each other for very…
Smith
Smith Objectionable, mercurial, fierce, wise, bandaged, solitary and irresistible, Phil Smith and I were not close. Only in our…
What do I know?
One of the more interesting paradoxes of analysing the interviews of professional writers during the Teachers as Writers (TaW)…
The Next Swim
For a number of reasons –too much grief in my life, too sedentary, too much television, too out…
Creativity: a provocation
You can download the PowerPoint of my talk at Mount Kelly College, on 18 April 2017, here: Creativity_a provocation_Mount Kelly College_April…
In Praise of Rupert
Rupert Loydell is shouting at the countryside. I have got up at sparrow-fart to drive him to the Blandford…
