The Kevin Jackson Award

I was privileged to meet and work with the late writer and critic Kevin Jackson in 2011. We tutored a … More

What really matters?

I was on the phone to a writer friend the other week. In itself this is a rare occurrence: normally … More

I found myself in the position of giving feedback to some writers recently. The writers were teachers who had signed … More

One of the more interesting paradoxes of analysing the interviews of professional writers during the Teachers as Writers (TaW) … More

Along with colleagues from the Arvon Foundation, The Open University and University of Exeter I have just begun … More

Alan Booth wasn’t the first teacher to teach me something, but he was the first who drew me into the … More

I am at a thing. It is my thing, contributing to the thing of others, who I do not know. … More

When Ezra Pound claimed that ‘Poetry is news that stays news’ it is likely he was thinking of Katy Evans-Bush’s Baroque … More

My blog post yesterday about the stationery thing provoked more responses than I ever imagined it would. Among the … More

I was very saddened to learn recently of the death of Michael Baldwin, the novelist, poet, writing tutor and former … More

The third Writing Research Across Borders conference takes place this week in Paris. I will be presenting a poster of … More

When I visit schools to read and talk about poetry there is often some sort of Q and A following … More

Teachers’ views of creativity is my new research article exploring poetry writing pedagogy. Here is the Abstract: Discourses of creativity in … More

Phil Bowen gave me this poem, written by a ten-year-old girl, in 1998 to illustrate a writing game he submitted … More