Did I mention I’d signed up for some swimming lessons? I saw a poster for a six-week long (school holidays) once a week group course,…
Poetry
Category: Poems
Tomorrow evening is the online launch of Lighthouse Journal #22 in which I have a poem called ‘Let’s pretend to go shopping together’. This poem…
Current reading … and a parrot Camilla’s Bookshop is open again in Eastbourne after an arson attack, and I can report that the parrot is…
Epigraphs, we’re told, are risky – they have a habit of upstaging the poem that follows. But the quote from William Blake is an apt…
I was recently asked to select some readings to go in between the movements of a choral piece. The piece is Bob Chilcott’s On Christmas…
A slew of poetry magazines have been arriving the last couple of weeks and I’ve enjoyed ‘discovering’ work by new names. Well, new to me…
Yes that probably sounds familiar, being the title of the 2009 collection by Gillian Clarke. I’ve been thinking a lot about water lately, and flow…
We’re into our fourth week of dust, clutter and washing up in the bath. The joys of home improvements! We still don’t have a fully working…
January is really my least favourite month – I think it’s the short days and dark evenings that are so depressing. It doesn’t help that…
A few months ago I sent some poems to David Caddy at Tears in the Fence. Although he didn’t take any of them for the…