The Year of Living Deeply 27: The briefcase man

Though I know him, his name escapes me. He is really a friend of a friend of a friend, … More

The Year of Living Deeply 26: The skater guy

I hear him before I see him. Sometimes not even that. The proverbial person you could set your clock by. … More

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

One of the privileges of writing this blog is inviting others to write guest blog posts. I have collected these … More

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? You are close at hand yet very far away. So long since I have … More

Today I have published a new Archive page on this blog. It contains links to all of the blog posts … More

I write a lot of things down. In part this is because I no longer remember anything. If I do … More

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

– –for Peter and Amanda Carpenter Yesterday a miraculous thing happened. I took delivery of a box containing copies … More

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

As the summer holidays take over I am re-posting the odd blog post from my archive. To celebrate the start … 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

Some of you will have seen this blog post before. It is a taster of some of the contents … More

I think I am done. I think. I think, therefore I am done? I think I am. No doubt there … More

When Riddance came out in 2012 people said some very nice and kind things about it. But that is not … More

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

‘What are you doing?’ says the book. ‘Nothing.’ ‘Doesn’t look like it.’ ‘Listening to the cricket,’ if you must know. … More