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...

One of the goaty references in my goaty piece… I put a piece of writing into the View from the Pen event at Windmill Hill City Farm –...

This is my day 30 (final one for the year) effort for National Poetry Writing Month. It’s a homophonic translation (according to sound,...

The Bristol Queen… I’ve been travelling to Weston-super-Mare the last couple of weeks to run a course – and have noticed a boat on...

A zoo sign from Bristol Zoo – and a wonderful artistic intervention. Something from today, for yesterday…I ran a group today and we...

Very long lines was today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo – I’m not sure mine are quite long enough, but I don’t have much time today – and have...

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...

La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Dicksee And so I’m up to date, with two ekphrastic poems… This second one inspired by the above...

The Wild Beast Show (1932) by Edward Seago Having just been up to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, I’ve written a couple of...

A quick and very-first-draft one today (which may remain so) – written in response to a prompt in Helena Nelson’s book How (not) To Get...

Lydia Kavina played some wonderful contemporary classical for theremin, as well as some marvellous sci-fi and mystery classics, like Mars...

We were at a funeral yesterday and I wrote something about waiting to go to such a ceremony at a crematorium – and also touching on them...

It appears I’m writing more that I might submit elsewhere this year – which makes for a less interesting blog, but a more hopeful...

Catching up with some blackout poems – which are really great fun to do…(Sorry that on the scan you can see the original text if you look...

If you’d like an actual, not silly, article about this subject, go here. Inspired by a rum-punch hangover conversation: SCRIPT FOR A VERY...

It’s very late and I have to work tomorrow, so this is a piece of Uncreative Writing, by turning this article content into a...

So then: I’m making the decision to only title this here and post it to private groups on Facebook. Because it might be one that gets...

“In a terracotta pot, day-/glo plastic pegs cling to the edge…” I liked the NaPoWriMo prompt today – the idea of the last, abstracted...

Well then: I’ve written something based on Drag Queen Bingo on Saturday night. But I’ve decided it’s probably too offensive to put on...

The skill game where you’re the doctor! A tritina, from yesterday’s prompt, and without an introduction… **NB Taken this one down as I...