July 24, 2016
My latest poetry pamphlet is now available as a free PDF. In The Chalk Path, Joe, Hugh, and myself turn our attention landward from the coast. The poems are drawn from walks over chalk downs, train rides beside white horses etched into hillsides and, in contrast, the bright red sandstone of my Mercian homelands. Read it online […]
May 19, 2016
Helen Eastman of Live Canon has edited an anthology of 154 responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets. I contributed a response to sonnet XXV, titled ‘Perseids’. It is a testament to Helen’s energy and organisation that this happened at all. They say working with poets is like herding cats. Can you imagine trying to marshall 154 of them […]
March 27, 2016
‘Murmuration’ took second place in the Keats’ Footsteps prize. Judge Jennie Osborne said: “I loved the use of language here, its visual nature, its fresh, shifting images that conjure the idea of crow, rather than telling us about crows. It is an impossible task to speak in the voice of other beings, but I think […]
February 8, 2016
I’ve had some poems published recently, including three in Urthona: Buddhism & the Arts. It’s a great magazine if you’re into Buddhism, meditation, and literature. Here’s ‘Waiting for Al-Khidr’ from the magazine. Also in the issue are ‘The Pearl’ and ‘How I Became a Prophet’. It’s the current issue so consider subscribing if you’re interested […]
January 6, 2016
Wood pigeons burble contentment from the chimney above my childhood garden as light falls from the sky burning at an unknown horizon beyond the oak leaves and fence. The compost heap buzzes murkily. The chains of the swing squeak: each moment lives on this hinge. My parents will soon call me to bed. For now, the […]
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