Nothing doing

Sporting occasions are bad. Or the Corbyn result, that was hard. I seem to remember (no one else does) a … More

Guest blog post: Whose life is it anyway? by John Foggin

  A few weeks ago I was writing in my own blog, the great fogginzo’s cobweb, about the way I … More

This may not work

Since I decided to leave Twitter and abscond from Facebook I have been reminded of some of the guiding principles … More

Let’s love today

Let’s love today, the what we have now, this day, not        today or tomorrow or yesterday, but this passing moment, … More

Mostly when I’m tired

This is my hard time -Theodore Roethke   The mornings I can cope with. Just. Not grabbing my phone before … More

Noticing again

Day four of the Twitter-fast. By the time you read this, day seven. The first thing I notice is the … More

Climbing up the walls

Or perhaps you’re waiting at the bus stop. You could text someone. But if you said ‘no’ to the text, … More

Guest posts and summer reading

As I did last year, I will be taking a break from uploading new posts to this blog over August. … More

Guest Post: How I put The Art of Falling together, by Kim Moore

How I put The Art of Falling together In May 2012 my first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves … More

Guest Blog Post: Don’t Think About A White Horse, by Kate Bowles

Don’t Think About A White Horse   Coming closer, he turns out to be you – or nearly. Once you … More

The missing poet

I have been at a thing. Poets I love and trust were there. We laughed. We invented scurrilous Twitter-profiles. It … More

Except the Americans

As I said recently, I have been moving. Not away, not abroad. But here, within the space that already exists, … More

Guest Blog Post: On Literary Envy, by Robin Houghton

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

Guest Blog Post: Dear Diary, by Josephine Corcoran

  This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are … More

The missing blog post

after and with apologies to Mark Halliday The missing blog post has gone AWOL. Never sure of its place in … More

Homesick

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward … More

Inside Lifesaving Poems 5

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond. Robert … More

Inside Lifesaving Poems 4

I have been moving. Not moving house, moving within it. Stuff has come with me, some of it has vanished … More