What is a lifesaving poem?

Tomorrow I will be taking part at the Wenlock Poetry Festival in an event with Roz Goddard. We will be … More

Beverly Rycroft’s missing

The other day I was asked what I look for in poetry. Needing to give a quick answer I said: I … More

Below is a collection of my blog posts for the 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. I will update it as I … More

Seven years ago I published The Year of Drinking Water, a pamphlet of poems, about my experience of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (Exeter … More

Don’t forget, this is inside us every day -Stephen Berg This is not happening. It happened. Past tense. One … More

Riddance has been reviewed by cancer patients, and former patients, under the aegis of Macmillan Cancer Support. You can find out … More

An old friend of mine wrote to me the other day, out of the blue, to tell me about … More

Thank you to Julia McGuinness for posting this interview with me on her Creative Connections blog. In it I discuss … More

Earlier this year I ran a Poetry School course about poetry and health called Written on the Body. It was … More