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Since I decided to leave Twitter and abscond from Facebook I have been reminded of some of the guiding principles … More

Lifesaving Poems: Charles Wright’s ‘After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard’

After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard East of me, west of me, full summer. … More

Let’s love today, the what we have now, this day, not today or tomorrow or yesterday, but this passing moment, … More

This is my hard time -Theodore Roethke The mornings I can cope with. Just. Not grabbing my phone before … More

I knew I was in trouble sometime in July. I just didn’t admit it. I was with friends, one of … More

Day four of the Twitter-fast. By the time you read this, day seven. The first thing I notice is the … More

Or perhaps you’re waiting at the bus stop. You could text someone. But if you said ‘no’ to the text, … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

What I want is to – to be present. That’s what I’ve learned. I want to strive for presence, now, … More

As I did last year, I will be taking a break from uploading new posts to this blog over August. … More

I am deeply grateful to Dave Russell of Survivors’ Poetry for his review of Lifesaving Poems in the current edition of Poetry … More

How I put The Art of Falling together In May 2012 my first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves … More

Thank you Lord, thank you. Thank you for all the gifts that you have given me today, Thank you for … More

I have been at a thing. Poets I love and trust were there. We laughed. We invented scurrilous Twitter-profiles. It … More

I am minding my own business, putting out some rubbish, when it happens. An elderly man I know, a neighbour, … More

This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are … More

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward … More

I have been moving. Not moving house, moving within it. Stuff has come with me, some of it has vanished … More