What you read in 2019

Here are my most popular blog posts of 2019. As you will have seen, I am taking a brief sabbatical … More

Advent poems 11: In Praise of Darkness, by Jorge Louis Borges

In Praise of Darkness Old age (the name that others give it) can be the time of our … More

Tomorrow is Sunday 1st December, the start of Advent. Each day during December I am going to post a … More

Thank you to the heroic bloggers and poets Josephine Corcoran and Robin Houghton for their recentish posts about their desks. … More

Shute Festival, 13 September, St Michael’s Church The audience in pews. September sunlight and warmth still in the air, light … More

I am delighted to announce that my new book of essays Deck Shoes is now on sale. You can buy it direct … More

Paul Brookes at Wombwell Rainbow has posted an interview with me about my reading and writing life, my influences … More

I am love with making notes. I makes notes in the morning, at bedtime, in the private places, in meetings, … More

Climate Sorrow To come into knowing is to come into sorrow. A sorrow that arrives as a thud, deadening … More

Dear Friends I am thrilled and delighted to be launching my two new books, The Afterlife (Worple Press) and … More

I am delighted to announce that my new book of poems The Afterlife is now on sale. You can buy it … More

I am delighted to announce that my new book of poems The Afterlife is now on sale. You can buy it … More

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? You are close at hand yet very far away. So long since I have … More

Today I have published a new Archive page on this blog. It contains links to all of the blog posts … More

I love this time of year. The city still seems to belong to itself. Mornings are still mornings, not a … More

I write a lot of things down. In part this is because I no longer remember anything. If I do … More

I love this time of year. There is a wonderful Anne Lamott line somewhere about the welcome of the cooler … More

A little taster for you. This is an essay from my forthcoming book Deck Shoes. – I was having … More

– –for Peter and Amanda Carpenter Yesterday a miraculous thing happened. I took delivery of a box containing copies … More

As the holiday season continues I repost this list of various found poems that I have made over the … More

As the summer holidays take over I am re-posting the odd blog post from my archive. To celebrate the start … More