What I learned this week

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

Guest blog post: Poetry and Work, by Shawna Lemay

Poetry and Work I recently took out a book via Interlibrary loan called, The Mind at Work: Valuing the … 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

The Soho Hospital for Woman (IV) I am out in the supermarket choosing – this very afternoon, this day … 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

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

Goulash A crucial ingredient is the right frame of mind so abandon all ideas of getting on. Stop pedalling, dismount, … 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