July 30, 2015
The dream was never clear as to whether it was you or I, or both of us riding the horse through the woods to the silent house. But I know it was you who spurred us over barbed wire, even though I felt the butterflies, knowing we were certain to fall. But still how I […]
July 1, 2015
There’s a poem in The Tide Clock titled ‘The Edge’. Here’s an earlier version of it that perhaps works in its own right, before the poem took a different turn. This version is more overtly about zazen: zen meditation practice. Just Sitting Waves relinquish the carracks, make fractals, circles, then stillness. My shadow drifts on the water, part of the […]
June 28, 2015
A PDF version of our poetry collection, The Tide Clock, is now available. Click here to read it. Feel free to share it with others. Blurb What do we find when the tide goes out and the coastline is exposed to light again, as if for the first time? In The Tide Clock, three poets […]
May 19, 2015
The new poetry pamphlet I’ve been working on with Hugh Greasley and Joe Franklin has arrived in proof form. There are a couple of minor errors to be fixed: I didn’t leave enough room between the bleed and the page margin on the cover, for one thing. These should now be resolved and I’ve put […]
April 2, 2015
I’m hoping to send our new poetry pamphlet to the printers this weekend. It’s the second collaboration between myself and poets Joe Franklin and Hugh Greasley. To whet your appetite, here’s a draft of the foreword: Sea music Ted Hughes once said that if the reason we travelled to the coast during our holidays was to relax, […]
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