Though let’s be honest, it’s seriously slippery. Some upcoming and ongoing projects: I’m delighted to be running a weekend of Fortean...

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...

“desecrated spaces, the rivers of me, these capillaries drying up at their tips” Last Wednesday, I ran the last workshop (of four) at M...

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...

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...

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...

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

The Tree of Life Some more poetry from our summer of canal travel (CaCaPoMo = Caleb’s Canal Poetry Month) – I’m sat inside, sheltering...

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...

A blood(shot) moon. Further poetry catch-up. Here’s my terza rima from Tuesday…From which I learned that terza rima is HARD to make sense...

Or become hysterical – but do go to Japan, it’s great. Yesterday’s word adventure was to think up a concrete noun – a word for a solid,...

Enceladus. Not enchiladas. Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to use what’s outside your window to make a list or toolbox of nouns, colours and...

One of the recent, unusual, French funnels. Recently, there have been tornadoes in both the USA and in France (!), where they are much...

Coronavirus – which probably doesn’t infect textiles, like the virus in my poem I’ve been having a bit of a recovery period...

An empty aquarium – shall we fill it with poems? Shall we? So yes, it being the end of NaPoWriMo, I’m going quite deranged and using...

The Universe loves things to get more disordered. (So most of us fit right in – We Are Stardust!) I’m running on a slightly altered...

Piss-en-lit! Taraxacum! Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to use a prescribed list of words and include 5 or more in a poem. Jo Bell’s...

COLOSSUS SEEKS KRAKEN Yesterday’s prompt was to write a poem in the form of a personal ad (from NaPoWriMo) or to write about a particular...

An infographic of how a Botnet works…I’d like to see an infographic of my ANTI-BOTNET. Anyone? Tasked with creating a ‘persona poem’...