The jump

But at some point you have to make the jump. How does this work in practice? First I am struck … More

This is writing!

The occupational hazard of going to things where other writers are also present is that they will always at some … More

A colleague of mine said to me at the end of a lecture the other day that she wished I … More

Somewhere right at the beginning of all this, before the internet, when everything was scarce, not least poetry, a word … More

It was going to be great. I wrote it more than seven years ago, in two bursts after work with … More

I’ve been thinking of Anne Lamott’s line in Bird by Bird recently, where she talks about the writing life not … More

I don’t make new year’s resolutions. I used to, but not any more. It’s not that I don’t want to … More

On publishing This year I published a book of poems. It is about grief, love and anger. It seems to … More

On waiting I grew up in a house where we were not encouraged to talk about our accomplishments. (I blame … More

I am delighted to announce the publication of The Wind and the Rain, with Blue Diode Publishing. Thank you to … More

Next month I will publish my sixth collection of poems, The Wind and the Rain, with Blue Diode Publishing. I … More

I once heard a senior British poet warming to a riff during a reading on the topic of the acknowledgements … More

This time last year, I had begun a third period waiting for a response to a new manuscript of poems. … More

I’m delighted to announce that The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, will be published with Blue … More

A huge shout out and massive thank you to Maria Taylor and her wonderful Commonplace blog, where yesterday I discovered … More

Just a few hours left of 2021. Time to reflect on what this year has been. Until a week or … More

Thank you to everyone who has commented to me either publicly or in private about my new series of blog … More

We have a lot of windows. I sit next to them at this time of the year thinking, Just five … More