2019, when I had – in a very real sense – wings. A belated and brief round-up of last year (I know – it’s nearly February, but midwinter...

Ekphrasis for All! (See Max Literacy update below) (No, projectification is not a word – but I just needed to finish the ‘-ification’...

A still from The Desktop Metaphor Some good newses to celebrate & projects to update! Firstly, the filmpoem by Helmie Stil of my piece...

Earlier in September, I was invited by Knowle West Media Centre to write a ‘bedtime story for an artists’ at their Artist Hotel...

I’ve just finished facilitating four sessions, working with Wyldwood Arts  – a group of 18-25 year olds from the Bristol Old Vic young...

“a transitory and changing constellation of percepts, hunger and muscular flexing” – a quote about the swallow, from Andrew Jeffrey‘s...

Here’s a short film made by me, about the excellent Growing Bolder project – funded by Bristol Ageing Better – and the performance we did...

For my Off The Record  WRITE OFF group today, we had a lovely time reading some Limericks and then having a go at writing our own…Here’s...

Last week in my group with Off The Record, we looked at Andrew McMillan’s poem ‘TODAY’ from his great collection Physical (which you...

The next WRITE OFF sessions start Tuesday June 7th at Beatroots Cafe, Lower Park Row, 17.00 – 18.30, for six weeks. The young people who...

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...

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...

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...

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

The group is for anyone aged 16-25 who feels their writing, wellbeing and creativity would benefit from taking part. It’s a small and...

I like the idea of a ‘Portfolio Career’: something dainty, portable and dynamic… Less this… At the moment, though, I’m coining the term...

NEWS: I’ll be piloting a creative writing group for young people in partnership with Off The Record Bristol – starting on Tuesday 3rd...

Travelling uphill, my  gears crunch. We forget how yesterday felt. The dog licks my hand, empathic, going from second to nothing,...

Busy assignment writing, working and – alas – not having time to NaPoWriMo. But ‘this is just to say’ that: #johncage #nothing #POETRY

Whichever way up you look at it (thanks to wordsmith.org for this lovely bit of black and white Ambiguity). Out of very little, quite...