In praise of pansies and flowery language (sometimes). I haven’t done a blog hurrah yet, but: I’m currently in a period of supported...

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

I’ve started using Trello as a way of keeping track of my poertry submissions to competitions and journals – and have found it a really...

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

Polari Writing with the Palones of Chelt Lit Crawl A busy couple of weeks with Cheltenham Literature Festival workshops, amongst other...

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...

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

From January 23rd, I’ll be hosting a five-week fortnightly course, Letting Your Avant-Garde Down, at Hours here in Bristol. I’m delighted...

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

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

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....

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...

In  February 2017, I’ll be running a seven-week creative writing course at M Shed Museum, Bristol harbourside. Here’s a little film I...

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

Last week in my group with Off The Record, we looked at Andrew McMillan’s poem ‘TODAY’ from his great collection Physical (which you...

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...