Losing My Ambition

Towards the end of my treatment for cancer in 2006 I had one of the most profound conversations of … More

End of January notebook

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

Last week I gave up writing. For about a day. I had been given a book by one of my … More

Here are some more of my favourite blogs to read. I have put these together (I love them all) because … More

I’m grateful to you, you see. I wanted to tell you. –Raymond Carver (‘For Tess’) A kind, wise man once … More

I wrote here recently about losing my ambition as a writer. In case readers are in any doubt, the stuff … More

As I say in my previous blog post, I owe my knowledge of ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’ to the … More

I have said before that one of the most useful things I have done in my life was to be … More

I absolutely love this poem by Andy Brown. I am not sure when I read or heard it first. Possibly … More

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More