December 16, 2015
Ho ho ho! I have a poem in this new Christmas anthology. Each of the poems is a contemporary spin on the season to be jolly. My perhaps not-so-jolly poem, ‘The Cord’, recalls watching Nelson Mandela’s funeral on TV during the lead-in to Christmas 2013. The anthology was edited and produced by the Live Canon […]
November 19, 2015
Hello all, the new Live Canon anthology is available to buy on Amazon. In it you’ll find a new poem by Geraldine Clarkson, ‘After If–‘; Isabel Rogers’ ‘Boys in the Storm’; my poem, ‘Labyrinth’, and lots more besides. All the poems have been shortlisted for the annual Live Canon competition and the winning poem will […]
October 7, 2015
Joe, Hugh, and I are publishing our third shared poetry pamphlet very soon. Our hope is to have it coincide with the Chalk arts and literary festival in Winchester, which starts on Saturday. The Chalk Path is the final instalment in our trilogy of pamphlets, which began with The Inner Sea in 2012. Earlier this year we published, […]
August 22, 2015
Gustave Moreau – Perseus and Andromeda. 1870. Perseus’ Flight Medusa’s murdered head drips blood into the sea. Curls twitch. Her filthy mane, dead but possessed by hate, disgorges poison through my grip. Even the white waves thundering below, Neptune’s loose cavalry, no longer gallop beneath winged shoes. They’re petrified by curdled Gorgon’s blood, gold calderas where […]
August 13, 2015
I’m chuffed to have some poems in Tom’s hip new zine, Blurb. It’s an outlet for writers at the publishing house I used to work at. The theme is ‘summer’ and there are some great turns: a poignant Island Ballad; an alternative beach body guide; a monologue on impermanance from a family of clouds; and Tom’s perfect […]
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