About Maurice

I first met Maurice in the sitting room of a mutual friend, a lifelong Labour supporter, the night after the … More

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‘80% of success is showing up.’ -Woody Allen I was chatting with a student the other day when I said … More

If you’re not enough without the gold medal, you’ll never be enough with it. – John Candy, Cool Runnings I did not … More

That CK Williams has died. More than two weeks ago! One of my heroes. This is the first thing I … More

Travelling without a visa It seems to me that all writing comes from a place of resistance inside – … More

A friend recently asked me if I was writing. I replied, as I always do, saying that it was going … More

In the rift between what is going to happen and whatever we would wish to happen, poetry holds attention for … More

During the mad phase, when everything was a tweet or a share or a retweet, one of my favourite discoveries … More

Sporting occasions are bad. Or the Corbyn result, that was hard. I seem to remember (no one else does) a … More

A few weeks ago I was writing in my own blog, the great fogginzo’s cobweb, about the way I … More

The afternoon was drawing to a close when I knew I had hit the wall. On its own terms there … More

Since I decided to leave Twitter and abscond from Facebook I have been reminded of some of the guiding principles … More

Let’s love today, the what we have now, this day, not today or tomorrow or yesterday, but this passing moment, … More

This is my hard time -Theodore Roethke The mornings I can cope with. Just. Not grabbing my phone before … More

I knew I was in trouble sometime in July. I just didn’t admit it. I was with friends, one of … More

Day four of the Twitter-fast. By the time you read this, day seven. The first thing I notice is the … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More