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...

Surreal objets, masks, The Tent Palace of the Delicious Air, Roy McFarlane performing, and the Poets’ Umbrellas. Just back from the Big...

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

The Tower of Maps and Thread (there’s a title) A few hurrahs: firstly, my poem ‘How to Preserve a Fatberg’ is up today on The Poetry Shed...

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

**UPDATED** My poem is the winners’ anthology title! I was double-thrilled & beyond delighted to find out that my poem, Somewhere To Keep...

Two Good Things: My National Poetry Competition second prize winner, ‘The Desktop Metaphor’ was featured on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Poetry Please’...

or, Putting on Your Proper Poet Hat It’s with huge delight I can now celebrate that I was awarded second prize in The Poetry Society’s...

A videopoem I made, based on some 1940s footage of How The Eye Functions, is now up on Atticus Review here, and embedded directly from...

Some exciting news: I’ve been shortlisted in The Rialto pamphlet competition 2017! It’s their first pamphlet competition and a really...

I’m one of the featured writers this month, on the excellent Visual Verse… You can read my curious poem here – and then submit your own...

A little ‘hooray for me’ post: I have been commended in the Ware Poets Open Competition 2016, for my poem The Thereminist Hails a Bus....

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...

Our Poetry School Microcommission, Chainmail (for Nicky Morgan) is now in a wonderful PDF flicky book on their website – you can read it...

Shaun’s response to a government report on Innovation… There’s a quick update on The Poetry School Microcommission project, ‘Chainmail’,...

Two of my poems – as well as an array of splendid work – are in this edition of Eyedrum Periodically, on the theme of ‘Backwards’. Of my...

A poem of mine, in honour of my late Granny Joy’s compulsion to collect, has been published by The Moon Magazine, here. #collections...

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...

Paul Jenkins’ ‘Phenomena Secret Cargo’ – but not as we saw it in the gallery…Which is right? Day 6 of NaPoWriMo – I’m still brewing a...

An Iain M. Banks Style Spaceship A curious task today: make something using the names of spaceships from Iain M. Banks sci-fi books. It...