The how of it

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

I was having a coffee with a new writer friend the other day. Not having known each other for … More

What you read in 2017

Dear Friends Here are the blog posts which you read most often in 2017, according to my WordPress stats: … More

On Not Being Anthony Wilson I haven’t always been Anthony Wilson. For a long time I wasn’t even Anthony. … More

I am delighted to have Suit, a new poem published on Simon Parke’s blog, in his poem of the week … More

Lifesaving Poems has arrived Well, it has finally arrived. The anthology which began life as a blog, which began life as … More

Two new poems are published today at And Other Poems, curated by Josephine Corcoran. They are Poem Beginning With a … More

‘Did you miss me?’ ‘It was only a couple of days.’ ‘Yes, but did you miss me?’ ‘Barely two days.’ … More

I am delighted to have a new poem, ‘Sunlight’, for my dear friend Peter Carpenter, published at The Stare’s Nest. … More

I am delighted to have a new poem, Some More Strategies for the End of the World, published today at … More

Here is my Christmas poem for 2014. In this anniversary year of the First World War, it commemorates the unofficial … More

I have been thinking a lot this week about the late Ted Wragg. When I joined the University of Exeter … More

I am delighted to be included in Issue Twelve of Antiphon poetry magazine. You can read my new poem, ‘S’, … More

I am delighted to be included in Lyrical, a new anthology of poems with my friends Cole Moreton, Katherine Venn, … More

Photograph © Bloodaxe Books Ltd I am delighted to announce that my Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts has now become … More

The online poetry magazine dedicated to very short poems, Nutshells and Nuggets, has taken two new poems of mine. You … More

Seven years ago I published The Year of Drinking Water, a pamphlet of poems, about my experience of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (Exeter … More

Here are the text and ppt presentations of my NATE Conference 2014 keynote speech on The Power of Poetry. PDF … More

Ink Sweat & Tears have published a new poem, ‘Hymn of Rain’. Here’s to another barbecue summer!

Don’t forget, this is inside us every day -Stephen Berg This is not happening. It happened. Past tense. One … More

I am delighted to have two new poems on Josephine Corcoran’s And Other Poems poetry blog. This is where you … More