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Oct 19, 20151 min read
Write Off!
NEWS: I’ll be piloting a creative writing group for young people in partnership with Off The Record Bristol – starting on Tuesday 3rd...
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Aug 27, 20151 min read
What Does Arts Award Mean?
Having had an enquiry about it, I thought it might be useful to post this diagram which explains the Arts Award and what it means in the...
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Jun 1, 20151 min read
Poetry School Microcommission Update
Here’s the latest update from The Poetry School about the Lo! and Behold Microcommission Fund, for which I’ve been running an email...
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Apr 9, 20151 min read
NaPoWriMo 2015.6: Allegiance
Folly Footbridge – as mentioned in my ‘aubade’ (morning poem). Image googled, from www.kennet-avon-canal.co.uk NaPoWriMo catch-up…and...
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Apr 8, 20151 min read
Poetry School Microcommission: First Report
Shaun’s response to a government report on Innovation… There’s a quick update on The Poetry School Microcommission project, ‘Chainmail’,...
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Apr 8, 20151 min read
NaPoWriMo 2015.5: A Plank In Reason
A Plank In Reason? Playing catch-up today (when I should be doing other things, of course), with my Emily Dickinson-inspired poem. Here...
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Apr 4, 20151 min read
NaPoWriMo 2015.4: Creag Iolaire
One of the scenes I remember from the day in 1997 when Diana’s death was reported. Didn’t fancy the love/un-love prompt today, so had a...
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Apr 4, 20151 min read
NaPoWriMo 2015.3: My Fellow Ministers
My Fellow Ministers? Day three’s poem, which I didn’t get around to yesterday…I’ve had a go at a sort of mixed-metaphor vaguely-political...
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Apr 2, 20151 min read
NaPoWriMo 2015.2: Cancer
Stones at Barry Island Beach At a beach today, on the birthday of a friend no longer with us – so the stars/constellations prompt was...
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Apr 1, 20152 min read
NaPoWriMo 2015.1: “Sat Like a Cormorant, Yet Not”
“Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true life Thereby...
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Feb 5, 20151 min read
The Poetry School Microcommission: Chainmail
We got one of the Lo! and Behold Microcommissions from The Poetry School! Mine was one of five projects fortunate enough to receive a...
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Jan 31, 20151 min read
The Poetical Meta-Form: A Form About Form
As I’ve been thinking about Form a lot recently for my post-grad studies, I thought I’d ‘outsource inspiration’ to see where it could...
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Jan 15, 20153 min read
Forming Groups, Grouping Forms
This is the first of what I hope will be a series of blog posts to do with my post-grad course in Creative Writing for Therapeutic...
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Oct 13, 20141 min read
Bristol Death Cafe
Here’s a short piece I wrote about my experience at the first Bristol Death Cafe. The next event is at Cox and Baloney on Sunday 29th...
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Sep 24, 20141 min read
My Phone Instead of an Onion: Video Poetry
New Life (created during a videopoetry workshop at Liberated Words 2014) from Marc Neys (aka Swoon) on Vimeo. On Saturday, I joined a...
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May 6, 20141 min read
NaPoWriMo 2.30: try
lizard fish bird mammal shrimp brain innit Here’s something for the last day which – (YES I CHEATED but I had nothin’ left for April, ya...
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May 6, 20141 min read
NaPoWriMo 2.29: Conviction
Twisty Tim Burton Trees… Yes, I know I’m nearly a week late – but I really haven’t had the chance up to know to be a Completist and put...
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Apr 28, 20141 min read
2.28: Big Deal
The Sloth: A Big Deal (for real) Here’s my news story-based poem (using pretty much just words from the article itself). The story was...
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Apr 28, 20141 min read
NaPoWriMo 2.27: Opportunity
“The shelves around his office are full of shiny awards, shrivelled words. “ Number twenty-seven and off-prompt. Something inspired by a...
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Apr 28, 20141 min read
NaPoWriMo 2.26: Zones 1 to 5
Like a satellite, all I can see of him is a distant silver spin – Here’s an attempt / variation on a curtal sonnet, based on an overheard...
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