This was Canada

I was listening to Radio 4 the other day. (You might think this unremarkable, but it was. I still have … More

The jump

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

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

I can’t write poems in recent weeks either. It’s not the first time it’s happened. And it’s not worth going … More

Happy new year, everyone. I’ve been doing a bit of tidying up on some of the pages of this blog. … More

Photo credit: Andrew Rumsey This, from a person I have met a handful of times, our dogs nosing each other … More

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

Thank you to Tamar Yoseloff for contributing this fourth post in celebration of James Schuyler’s centenary. In Paris last year, … More

On publishing This year I published a book of poems. It is about grief, love and anger. It seems to … 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 am delighted to announce that I will be launching my new collection, The Wind and the Rain, published by … 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

I was privileged to meet and work with the late writer and critic Kevin Jackson in 2011. We tutored a … More

What’s been happening? Well, not much. Which is another, deflecting, way of saying quite a lot, actually. So much that … More

A huge thank you to Ken Head and Helen Ivory at Ink Sweat & Tears for this review of Riddance … More

John Foggin has been kind enough to review The Afterlife on his blog. You can read the full review here. … More