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Advent meditation 3

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

Advent, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Funboy Three, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, putting a collection together, Terry Hall, Waiting, Writing, Writing Poems

The Wind and the Rain – due in June 2023

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

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Blue Diode Publishing, Climate Change Grief, Grief, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Wind and the Rain, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems

The Kevin Jackson Award

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

Arvon, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Kevin Jackson, Peter Carpenter, Teaching Creative Writing, Teaching Writing, Writing, Writing Poems

Not much

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

Adam Zagajewski, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Coral Bracho, Ellen Bass, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Sarah Maguire, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing Poems

A new review of Riddance… from 2013

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

Blood Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Poetry, Ink Sweat & Tears, Ken Head, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Poetry, Remission, Remission and Cancer, Reviews, Riddance

John Foggin’s review of The Afterlife

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

Lifesaving Lines: The Bluet, by James Schuyler

On a spring day as far from ‘late in dour October’ it would be harder to imagine, James Schuyler’s The … More

Being a Poet, Carl Phillips, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Ukraine

Book news for 2023

I am delighted to announce that Blue Diode have accepted my new poetry manuscript and will publish my sixth collection, … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Blue Diode Press, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Wind and the Rain, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Lifesaving Lines: Stone, I Presume, by Ian Mcmillan

For several weeks before Christmas I had these words from Ian McMillan’s peerless ‘Stone, I Presume’ rattling around my head. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Frank O'Hara, Ian McMillan, Lifesaving Poems, Martin Stannard, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing Poems

Not exactly good riddance

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

2021, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Simon Parke

Lifesaving Lines

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

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Cancer, Dementia, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Shawna Lemay, Stationery, The Afterlife, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: The Day After, by Michael Laskey

The line that’s been buzzing round my head this week is the final phrase from Michael Laskey’s miracle poem of … More

Being a Poet, Laskey, Life Lessons, Poems, Poems about food, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Rose Cook, Smith Doorstop

Who are we serving?

One of the great joys for me this summer was being able to get back to Greenbelt, a festival of … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Greenbelt, Natalie Goldberg, Poems, Poetry, Roger Robinson, Writing Poems

In search of beginner’s mind

As I come back to this blog, I am looking to try and inhabit what Zen practitioners call beginner’s mind. … More

Being a Poet, Jaan Kaplinski, mindfulness, Natalie Goldberg, Poems, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing Poems

Some new poems

I am delighted to announce the publication of some new poems, which you can find at the links below. Having … More

Being a Poet, New Poems, Poems, Poetry, Writing, Writing Poems

A list of found poems

Here is a list of various found poems that I have made over the years. Happy holiday reading and looking … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Found Poems, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Lone wolf

I am deeply grateful to Hilary Menos and Andy Brodie at The Friday Poem for taking a new poem of … More

Being a Poet, Mental Health, Poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

Writing prompts (blog post ending with a line by Shawna Lemay)

after Shawna Lemay Write a poem about the rain. Or the wind.Write about what you learned at university.Or did not … More

Asking, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process, Writing Prompts

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