How’s the poetry going?

Sometimes people, including poets, ask me how my writing is going. The difference between a poet and a non-poet asking … More

I am Fighting

I wrote here a couple of days ago about my aversion to using war metaphor to describe cancer. Judging from … More

Nine days after I was told that my chemotherapy treatment was not working in April 2006 the doctors discovered the … More

Today is the seventh anniversary of my diagnosis with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL), an aggressive cancer of the lymphatic system. I … More

I have just come back from the Greenbelt Festival where I was delighted to give a talk about writing poetry … More

Some writers influence you through the pull of their imagination on your work, opening up new worlds as you read … More