Launching The Wind and the Rain

I am delighted to announce that I will be launching my new collection, The Wind and the Rain, published by … More

James Schuyler: Centenary year celebrations

Open call for guest blog posts celebrating the life and work of James Schuyler This November, we celebrate the centenary … More

I once heard a senior British poet warming to a riff during a reading on the topic of the acknowledgements … More

This time last year, I had begun a third period waiting for a response to a new manuscript of poems. … More

I’m delighted to announce that The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, will be published with Blue … More

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

What’s been happening? Well, not much. Which is another, deflecting, way of saying quite a lot, actually. So much that … More

Heather Trickey was a social research scientist, charity worker, Quaker and poet. In 2020, during the first Covid lockdown, she … More

I am delighted to announce that Blue Diode have accepted my new poetry manuscript and will publish my sixth collection, … More

For several weeks before Christmas I had these words from Ian McMillan’s peerless ‘Stone, I Presume’ rattling around my head. … More

Thank you to everyone who has commented to me either publicly or in private about my new series of blog … More

I was very saddened to hear of the death of Brendan Kennelly this week. He had been a long-standing presence … More

I was at a thing. Very rarely for me, it was my own thing, only my second in front of … More

One of the great joys for me this summer was being able to get back to Greenbelt, a festival of … More

As I come back to this blog, I am looking to try and inhabit what Zen practitioners call beginner’s mind. … More

I am delighted to announce the publication of some new poems, which you can find at the links below. Having … More

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

I am deeply grateful to Hilary Menos and Andy Brodie at The Friday Poem for taking a new poem of … More