It appears I’m writing more that I might submit elsewhere this year – which makes for a less interesting blog, but a more hopeful...

I wrote a poem (OK?), but I’m keeping it offline for potential magazine/competition submissions (sorrynotsorry)… But just so you know,...

And a second blackout poem for today…Text version underneath… HURT creamy wealth chopped chopped peeled and grated ground ground dried...

Catching up with some blackout poems – which are really great fun to do…(Sorry that on the scan you can see the original text if you look...

If you’d like an actual, not silly, article about this subject, go here. Inspired by a rum-punch hangover conversation: SCRIPT FOR A VERY...

It’s very late and I have to work tomorrow, so this is a piece of Uncreative Writing, by turning this article content into a...

So then: I’m making the decision to only title this here and post it to private groups on Facebook. Because it might be one that gets...

Yes, it’s very much like this one. In haste, this morning… Yesterday, I ran a group with some young people in which we looked at Wallace...

“for a moment it is there” Day Eleven! I’m still operating on the idea that any of these I really like and want to take on, may be...

Well then: I’ve written something based on Drag Queen Bingo on Saturday night. But I’ve decided it’s probably too offensive to put on...

The skill game where you’re the doctor! A tritina, from yesterday’s prompt, and without an introduction… **NB Taken this one down as I...

SEND IT BACK Catch up Friday (and because writing is more fun that other things I should probably be doing). A quickly-written but...

“hook yourself up to this black machine…” Catching up and got rather caught up on this one… There’s an element of the Concrete about it,...

A delightful ‘Dogship’ from this website – I don’t know what they do (because I can’t read it), but presumably it relates to dog care,...

“Let us get ourselves a pet…” My, it’s getting late. Which might be why day three turned out quite so peculiarly (sorry not sorry)....

“It said it was from IKEA…” (And this picture is from there). Day two for NaPoWriMo, and something I started yesterday. I looked through...

“A bright seed…” It’s April – and that means National Poetry Writing Month…And I’ve decided to really commit again this year. I’ll be...

A quick note to say my Write Off sessions will be starting again on Tuesday 1st March. The sessions are open to all young people from 15...

A poem of mine, ‘Hands’,  has just gone up on Folia Magazine online – you can read it here. The poem came out of a workshop a couple of...

I’ve just started on a Future Learn course (a MOOC – Massive Online Open Course, I believe) – which is about Literature and Mental...