The blank space

Dear Friends Like the closed down (but still creative) shop window of Top Shop I saw on an early morning … More

The blogs I don’t read (LentBlog8)

When I began blogging almost ten years ago, I felt as though I had been let into the shiny, sugar-scented … More

There’s a problem with that title, isn’t there? While I have not been completely silent (fifteen blog posts at most? … More

Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo, that month in the year when someone decides it is a nice idea … More

There I was with my friend, on my second cup of tea. He had just asked me why I do … More

This isn’t about numbers, but my relationship with them. It isn’t about giving you a figure. (By the time you … More

On Literary Envy “Comparison is the thief of joy” –Teddy Roosevelt You wake up one morning. You check in … More

Nothing much is happening. The book has gone out for the evening, leaving me alone, with, well, just me. I … More

In preparation for this year’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival I was asked some questions about my blogging by Festival programmer Dean … More