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Mar 15, 20131 min read
Vermin On The Rise
A couple of stories recently linked very directly to my Vermin Cycle of poems. The first is the great news that the EU has now banned all...
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Mar 12, 20133 min read
Advice for the Artist When Depicting a Lady-Scientist or, Unbecoming
Ada King, Countess of Lovelace – AKA Proto-Computer Queen So Friday was International Women’s Day – and Sunday Mother’s Day. Hurrah for...
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Mar 11, 20132 min read
Card-board Word-hoard: Sunday 17th March
Sunday, 2pm at Melbourne Street Studios, Leeds. YOU SHOULD COME. IT WILL BE FUN AND MESSY. Bring: glue sticks, scissors, old newspapers...
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Mar 8, 20131 min read
Wicked Words review
A review! Thanks Martin – glad you enjoyed the cockroach and its epic fishing-rod antennae: they were pound shop’s finest, sewn into a...
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Mar 4, 20131 min read
A Haiku
‘Arriving at The British Gas Museum, Leicester, with hopes of a huge display of pilot lights, pipes and valves’ A sign on the door: ...
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Feb 7, 20131 min read
Wicked Words
I took part in the Wicked Words open mic event last night at 7 Arts in Chapel Allerton. What a splendid night – some awesome poetry about...
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Feb 5, 20131 min read
The science of poetry, the poetry of science
The science of poetry, the poetry of science I found this article by Ruth Padel a few days ago and just got around to reading it. If...
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Feb 4, 20132 min read
The Angry Birds
Part of an excellent comic strip on cat killers from: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill – go on their website and buy their...
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Jan 29, 20133 min read
774 or, Darkling Child
“Two vortices their nuptials swore…” I’ve been continuing to read Paul Matthews’ excellent book on writing, Sing Me The Creation. One of...
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Jan 21, 20132 min read
‘As Above, So Below’ or, ‘Capital E. Control A. Control C. Control V.’
Galaxies or neurons? The Universe is, or is like, a Giant Brain. Or the Brain is, or is like, a Little Universe. Same diff. Last week, I...
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Jan 20, 20131 min read
Which Winter?
A snow-dome iris, cracking through the screen… This spell of wintry weather reminded me of a poem I wrote and put on some Christmas cards...
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Jan 14, 20132 min read
Crinkly Fingers or, A Lonely Fisherman Sings to the Catch
The Loneliness of a (Prune-Fingered) Trawler Fisherman This morning, I read a lovely news story by Jonathan Amos about research on...
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Jan 11, 20131 min read
Prey or, White Metal Cave
A 3M-long scrub python is preyed on by a plane. In my effort to write two new poems a week based on things I’ve seen in the news, here’s...
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Jan 10, 20132 min read
Pick One Fleck – Apophis
There he is! Yes, the slightly-less blurry one with the big red arrow pointing to it. That isn’t actually there, of course. As part of...
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Jan 10, 20131 min read
The Vermin Cycle: Adventures in Self-Publishing
The Vermin Cycle eBook Cover It’s a new year, a new Mayan era (allegedly) and very much a new start. So, being as we made it through...
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Aug 1, 20121 min read
228mph or, The Falconer
Here’s a poem I wrote for a Teach First poetry slam we held yesterday – mine didn’t end up being performed (although the poem which did...
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Jun 11, 20122 min read
Dry days – a pause outside Oxford
We finally got off the Chartered Thames yesterday – I kept calling it that, from a William Blake poem I remembered – ‘London’. I couldn’t...
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Sep 10, 20113 min read
Beautiful Weeds, Cities and Systems
Botanical Time-Teller At the end of last month, I performed the Vermin Cycle at Green Man Festival – it was a great experience, although...
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Jul 7, 20112 min read
Balance Month
It's Balance Month. But I won't be doing any of this. (Have you seen 'Man On Wire'? It made my head hurt) On Saturday evening, H Ren and...
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Jun 7, 20111 min read
‘Filing The Poet Laureate’
I’ve been working recently back in well-known broadcasting institution – and wrote this poem based on an occurrence a week or so ago....
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