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Dharma Dudes: Death Waits For No Dude

July 4, 2016

Dharma Dudes: No Thyself

June 27, 2016

I haven’t had much spare time lately what with work, moving house, and spending time with the kids. It’s been busy, exciting, rewarding and all that. Did I mention busy? But a couple of weeks ago I felt the unexpected urge to sketch some comic strips about meditation and related issues. Here’s the first, there may be […]

154 contemporary poets respond to Shakespeare’s sonnets

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 […]

Bad juju

April 1, 2016

While supposedly training for a half marathon, I went out for chocolate and crisps. As I’d been working at the computer for most of the day, I decided to loop around by the old cemetery. Though it was evening, the birds were still singing as I came to the grey stone wall. No doubt they were confused […]

Second place in Poetry Teignmouth’s local competition

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 […]