The blank space

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

Reasons to be cheerful

Ok, so it was a terrible week. But in other news, not such a bad one. My friend Katherine sent … More

Just over a year ago I wrote a blog post talking about my ‘tired frame of mind’ and intention to … More

Here are the blog posts that you read most in 2020 As I click through the links I am surprised … More

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

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