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…
Poetry
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…
If you’ve been at a reading I’ve given you may have heard the snooker poem… it’s a bit of fun, my homage to snooker genius…
Delighted to see my ‘night before Christmas’ poem on Abegail Morley’s The Poetry Shed today! Huge thanks!
Just a quick update on my poetry submissions, in case you’re interested – I know people often like a comparison, and while those “I’m delighted to announce…”…
One of the interesting things about the Poetry Book Fair in September was seeing poetry pamphlets and books from different publishers side by side, and…