Advent meditation 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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