Kind of to a desk

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

Kind of ashamed

‘What you reading?’ says the book. ‘Nothing.’ ‘No need to be shy,’ says the book. ‘Go on, what is it?’ … More

Blind panic when the anthology I am in arrives. The hunt, ever more despairing, for my poem, certain that they … More

[…] you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don’t you are … More

Barely any bird-life since the gales. A robin’s song this morning, from behind the curtains. And yesterday one tiny blue … More

Two successes I can claim as a parent: they both love music and football (even if one of them supports … More