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...

Just back from a double whammy of festivals – Green Man and Shambala. Knackered! Both were very splendid happenings indeed. Will post...

Today, I’m in Nova Hreod Academy in Swindon for National Writing Day.  This morning we created Recipes for Poetry on a Sunny Day, en...

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

Marvin could do with a bit of this recipe, I reckon. Last Thursday 27th July, I compered an event as part of at-Bristol’s Festival of...

Hopefully living on Mars wouldn’t be much like The Expanse… Next week, I’ll be compering an event as part of at-Bristol’s ‘Festival of...

I’ll be leading some witty, silly, Petty Protest at Green Man Einstein’s Garden this year, as part of their theme of (Mis)Behaviour....

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

There was something I really wanted to write for a submission this week – so I duly have (and am treating it as my daily poem – though...

A quick shout to anyone in Bristol, to come along to ‘Words in Motion’ on Wednesday at The Arts House, Stoke’s Croft, as part of the...

But is she among them…? It’s a catch up day again – I’m finding that poetry gathering- and writing-binges are how I’m doing NaPoWriMo...

I went along to ELFM Towers yesterday for a chat with the ever-gracious Peter Spafford on his monthly extravaganza of all things wordy,...

26th June at the Heart Centre, Headingley – come along! #writing #poets #creativewriting #poetry #HEadingley #Leeds

A quick update also that – GOOD NEWS – I’m going to be one of the poets featured in the LS13 Leeds Writers anthology, about which more...

Hyde Park Picture House: 100 in 2014! As you may have noticed, things have been a bit cinematic on my blog during NaPoWriMo. I’m reading...

Temple Newsam House, with its blessing around the roof-line Catching up with some NaPoWriMo prompts: determined to have at least 30 by...

Prompt no. 3 of NaPoWriMo was to write a sea shanty. This pleased me greatly as I’m a part of (when I can make it!) the Ocean Loiners – a...

A review! Thanks Martin – glad you enjoyed the cockroach and its epic fishing-rod antennae: they were pound shop’s finest, sewn into a...

Just to say that part two of the Vermin Cycle, which I recorded for lovely Dave’s BCFM programme ‘A Cup of Tea and a Piece of Cake’, will...

You can see my profile page here: http://www.greenman.net/artist2011/vermin/4210 Very much looking forward to performing at Green Man,...