The Year of Living Deeply 26: The skater guy

I hear him before I see him. Sometimes not even that. The proverbial person you could set your clock by. … More

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blog posts page

In 2014 I was invited by the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival to be their guest blogger. I have added the blog … More

One of the privileges of writing this blog is inviting others to write guest blog posts. I have collected these … More

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? You are close at hand yet very far away. So long since I have … More

Today I have published a new Archive page on this blog. It contains links to all of the blog posts … More

Having left FB a week or two ago and quickly decided before I could persuade myself to do otherwise to … More

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

Dear Facebook I thought I would write to let you know that after years of thinking (and even talking) … 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

As we draw to the end of NaBloPoMo, I have invited Josephine Corcoran to collaborate with me on a joint-interview. … More

Fear after Raymond Carver Fear of cancer returning That phone call in the night Fear of Donald Trump Fear … More

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

You write a blog post every day since the middle of July. It goes fine. But just as you begin … More

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

This is the opening question and answer to an interview with Paul Clyne of Poetry Spotlight, published today. To read … More

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

Yesterday I listened to a dialogue between Debbie Millman and Seth Godin on art-making, resistance, anxiety, how the internet has changed … More

because of the words and because of the books because of the woman in the anorak at the swimming baths … More

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