“The vase is filled with another thousand of these moments.” Today, I’ve co-written (with my partner Paul Hurley) the second poem of the...

The dream home of Tomorrow, in which you might find the Goblin… It’s a two-poem day as my brain was too fried yesterday…The other...

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...

Borders need Boundaries…? Off-prompt today as I’m doing day 5 and 6 today (was out and about yesterday) and this had started forming in...

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a lune – a kind of English language haiku which goes, line by line: three words / five words / three...

Ding! Ding! Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a charm against something. And today’s 52 prompt was to write about losing something....

Now 49p. Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write something based on mythology that isn’t Greek or Roman. On my web-travels, I discovered...

“Ten trillion flies can’t be wrong…” **WARNING** Parental Guidance – (Mildly) Explicit Lyrics So it begins. And I do enjoy the challenge...

Well yes, I am going to try to do National Poetry Writing Month (or NaPoWriMo – click there for more info) again this year. Last year was...

On Tuesday, I’ll be reading alongside other LS13 Anthology writers at Waterstone’s in Leeds city centre, from 7pm. It would be lovely to...

Making my merry way back to Leeds after a lovely time in Bristol (which I do miss). Obviously I am on the glamorous Megabus – and am sat...

Returned from Green Man on Monday – which was an utterly lovely festival experience: the event is brilliantly well run, with a perfect...

Buzz Words and the Bee Ceilidh at Green Man I’m very excited about Green Man, Einstein’s Garden where I’ll be running my Buzz Words...

Ivor Cutler, January 15, 1923 – March 3, 2006. For a while now I’ve wanted to write and perform something as – channelling, or in tribute...

Having been struggling to get the pen moving this last couple of days, I just tried out a little exercise to generate this poem… Descent...

This poem’s been rattling around my head for a while, so I made myself get on with it for a bike zine (on the theme of ‘wheels’) which is...

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

Last Saturday, I went on a workshop with the Canal Laureate, Jo Bell, about whom you can read more here. We spent some time talking about...

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