A new poem: Hymn of Rain

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

This isn’t happening

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

Riddance has been reviewed by cancer patients, and former patients, under the aegis of Macmillan Cancer Support. You can find out … More

My memoir of cancer, Love for Now, has been reviewed by cancer patients, and former patients, under the aegis of Macmillan … More

I get to the reading on time. I find a place near the front, so I can get to the … More

I have been thinking a lot recently about the gap between what is expected of us and what we think … More

When I visit schools to read and talk about poetry there is often some sort of Q and A following … More

Dear Anthony (I will never get used to calling you Tony) Here are some words of advice from your nearing-fifty-year-old … More

Herod With Wikileaks in the headlines you could say the timing was perfect. Three Iraqi profs … More

Two readings stood out for me in 2013. The first was at an arts centre in the middle of nowhere … More

Mary At first a fluttering then a kick, his fist pummelling my ribcage when I knelt to pray. They … More

Joseph They say there are signs. Not with her. I’m no professor but neither am I stupid. … More

This is the recording of my reading ‘Life Begins With Cancer’, recorded at the Greenbelt Festival on Sunday 25th August, … More

In September 2006 my treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma came to an end. I was not told I was officially in … More

Colin Mallett, Sculptor The poets I go back to This article first appeared in the North magazine, in November 2007. … More

I found John Burnside‘s ‘A Private Life’ in a poetry magazine some years ago. I wasn’t much interested in … More

Tomorrow the Church Times publishes a combined review of my memoir of cancer Love for Now and Riddance, my … More