The Afterlife is now on sale

I am delighted to announce that my new book of poems The Afterlife is now on sale. You can buy it … 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

A little taster for you. This is an essay from my forthcoming book Deck Shoes. – I was having … More

As the holiday season continues I repost this list of various found poems that I have made over the … More

There isn’t much left to be done. The proof reading, the book blurbs (they take longer than the poems), the … More

After what feels like a very long wait since the publication of Riddance in 2012, I am delighted to be publishing … More

I have been doing the proofs to my new books. And I am scared. Scared that I have got it … More

Poems hatch Poems hatch from memory, fantasy, the need to communicate with the living, the dead, the unborn. Poems come … More

My James Schuyler obsession continues. (So is my adoration of blogs about pencils, but that is another story.) Below are … More

I think I will write you a letter, June day. Dear June Fifth, you’re all green, so many kinds and … More

I am delighted to announce some readings to promote my forthcoming books The Afterlife and Deck Shoes with Worple Press and … More

I have been reading Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life recently. In it she asks … More

I have carried it with me each day, that sense of shame about the fact that I write, that it … More

About a month before my friend Pammy died, she said something that may have permanently changed me. We had … More

I was saddened to hear of the death of the Australian poet Les Murray yesterday. In the autumn of 1997, … More

I wrote the poem below in the summer of 2015. David Cameron had won a slim majority in the … More

Dear Alicia I can’t believe it is three years since I got to hang out with you at Totleigh … More