The most popular lifesaving poems

Earlier this year my Lifesaving Poems blog enjoyed something of a milestone. Not as momentous as Jimmy Anderson taking his … More

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

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