Orford Ness
Some years ago now I visited Orford Ness Nature Reserve, a strange and mysterious place on the coast of Suffolk. Strange in the […]
Category: Writing
Chewing the cud & going off-piste
A small window has opened up between sinus headaches for me to write an overdue blog post… the cold-y sinus-y stuff prevented me […]
Thinking about poem and book titles
How easily do poem titles come to you? How about book/pamphlet titles? I’ve always found titles quite hard to come up with. I’ve […]
Readings, decisions, fresh starts
I’m feeling very uplifted by real-life in-person poetry events. Last week in Lewes was the launch of three Frogmore Press publications: The Naming […]
Trying to write the next poem
I’ve just been editing an interview I did with the wonderful Kim Addonizio recently, for Planet Poetry. I’m a huge fan of Kim’s […]
Meet-ups, currently reading & other distractions
Nothing wrong with distractions, and goodness I’m certainly welcoming them with open arms. But scroll down if you’re only here for the poetry […]
Not drowning but waving
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 […]
Lighthouse launch: reading a new poem and its prequel
Tomorrow evening is the online launch of Lighthouse Journal #22 in which I have a poem called ‘Let’s pretend to go shopping together’. […]
A sudden rush of sending out & signing up
Earlier this week I found myself pulling out old poems as well as some recent work, and giving them a bit of a […]
A question about ‘poechreay’
I’m expecting my granddaughter to be offered a book deal any time now. Last week she gave me a card with a question […]