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  • On the value of blogging.

    On the value of blogging.

    I’m gratified by the number of likes, comments and visits I received to my Not Quite a Post post!  It just goes to show that, when you’ve said you’re on a blogging schedule (in 2014 I’ve been trying to post at least once a week, usually on a Sunday) it’s worth plonking your bottom down Read more

  • ‘The Misplaced House’ available from tall-lighthouse website

    ‘The Misplaced House’ available from tall-lighthouse website

    If you would like to buy a copy of my poetry pamphlet, ‘The Misplaced House,’ it’s now available to order here. Copies will also be available to buy at these events: The Poetry Café, Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX, on Monday, 8th December, 7.30pm, when my pamphlet and other new publications from tall-lighthouse Read more

  • My quick as a flash week.

    My quick as a flash week.

    My week has gone by in a flash.  I’ve signed off on my pamphlet, ‘The Misplaced House’, and I’m waiting for Gareth Lewis at tall-lighthouse to tell me that it’s come back from the printer’s.  The launch will be at The Poetry Café, Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX on Monday, 8th December at 7.30pm. On Thursday Read more

  • I’m reading at Vanguard on Thursday 20th November

    I’m reading at Vanguard on Thursday 20th November

    Just a quick post to remind anyone within easy reach of SE London that I’m reading at the Vanguard Reading Series this Thursday, 20th November, 7.30pm.  The reading series was created by novelist, poet, and writing tutor, Richard Skinner, who is also Director of the Fiction Programme at the Faber Academy.  It’s a monthly series of Read more

  • Not quite a post

    Not quite a post

    This is an unwritten post, a silence, a caught in the throat, the words in my head, the left unsaid. The scratched out, the scribbled, the scrunched-up, the came to nothing. Doodles in the margins, around the edges. Gazing out there, up there, beyond here. A quick game of Hearts, a glance at Facebook, Twitter. Read more

  • A small poppy

    A small poppy

    This week’s photo challenge is to take a minimalist photo and this shot of my daughter holding a tiny image of a poppy reminded me of some of the WWI poetry I read with members of my read aloud, reading groups this week. A particular favourite was ‘In Flanders Fields’ by John McCrae.  One woman liked the mention Read more