Goodbye Facebook, it’s been real (?)

Now for the other life. The one without mistakes. –Lou Lipsitz   A year ago I found myself not looking at … More

Guest blog post: Travelling without a visa, by Finuala Dowling

Travelling without a visa   It seems to me that all writing comes from a place of resistance inside – … More

The Creativity Challenge

Below is the text of a PowerPoint presentation that I am giving today at the Directors of Studies Conference 2015, at Port … More

Am I a poet?

A friend recently asked me if I was writing. I replied, as I always do, saying that it was going … More

Pure distraction

In the rift between what is going to happen and whatever we would wish to happen, poetry holds attention for … More

Guest blog post: Whose life is it anyway? by John Foggin

  A few weeks ago I was writing in my own blog, the great fogginzo’s cobweb, about the way I … More

Noticing again

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

Guest blog post: Writing my way through bereavement, by Sue Hepworth

Writing my way through bereavement   I don’t approve of death. I’m with Edna St Vincent Millay: I am not … More

Influences: Alan Booth

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

Writing and silence

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

Thingless

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

After the thing

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

Publish more!

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

Are you writing?

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

Guest posts and summer reading

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

Guest Post: How I put The Art of Falling together, by Kim Moore

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

Guest Blog Post: On Literary Envy, by Robin Houghton

On Literary Envy   “Comparison is the thief of joy” –Teddy Roosevelt You wake up one morning. You check in … More

Guest Blog Post: Dear Diary, by Josephine Corcoran

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