A list of found poems

Here is a list of various found poems that I have made over the years. Happy holiday reading and looking … More

Summer reading

To continue this season of not, where I have been reposting old blog posts and links to some others, I … More

One of the touchstones that I would add to those I blogged about last week is a marvellous section from … More

Harold Budd, May 24, 1936 – December 8, 2020 I am reposting this piece today in memory of Harold Budd, … More

The Fear of Poetry In this moment when we facehorizons and conflicts widerthan ever before, we want our resources,the ways … More

I have walked into the grief. I have walked into brave space, mine and others’. I have sat in … More

I am tired. Though I write from a place of privilege and of safety, I am tired. Tired of feeling … More

I can’t be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an infringement on my … More

Young Poets’ Stories project update: Today we add a reading resources for young poets page to the Young Poets’ Stories website. … More

Here are some places that I have been visiting recently and derived much comfort from. I hope you enjoy them … More

For reasons I cannot go into here, I am finishing 2019 in a tired frame of mind. (I am not … More

Greenbelt Festival, Friday 23rd August Outside, it is a very warm 28º. Inside our tented venue the canvass and stage … More

Thank you to the heroic bloggers and poets Josephine Corcoran and Robin Houghton for their recentish posts about their desks. … More

I am delighted to announce that my new book of essays Deck Shoes is now on sale. You can buy it direct … More

Paul Brookes at Wombwell Rainbow has posted an interview with me about my reading and writing life, my influences … More

I am love with making notes. I makes notes in the morning, at bedtime, in the private places, in meetings, … More

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

I write a lot of things down. In part this is because I no longer remember anything. If I do … More