A poem a day in the days leading up to Brexit

Just sharing with you the news that poet Martyn Crucefix is going to be posting a poem a day on his blog, starting on March 1st and ending on March 29th - the day when the UK is supposed to be leaving the EU. Martyn writes that this sequence of new poems "has been written… Continue reading A poem a day in the days leading up to Brexit

New poem at The Morning Star

Since I first published this post, I've added some more thoughts about documentary poetry and about my reasons for writing the poem 'Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe Says Sorry'. The poem came out of Andrea Brady's Documentary Poetics workshop at Poetry Swindon.  Andrea sent through excellent course materials and poems by writers such as Mahmoud Darwish, Carolyn Forché, Ken Saro-Wiwa… Continue reading New poem at The Morning Star