This is the first of what I hope will be a series of blog posts to do with my post-grad course in Creative Writing for Therapeutic...

Here’s a short piece I wrote about my experience at the first Bristol Death Cafe. The next event is at Cox and Baloney on Sunday 29th...

Our route from North to West For the next month, we are on the move aboard Reenie again headed back towards Bristol…Where I am starting a...

lizard fish bird mammal shrimp brain innit Here’s something for the last day which – (YES I CHEATED but I had nothin’ left for April, ya...

Twisty Tim Burton Trees… Yes, I know I’m nearly a week late – but I really haven’t had the chance up to know to be a Completist and put...

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...

Your orders… Friday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write something using anaphora, a way of repeating the same phrase in a poem to explore and...

I’ve been at a poetry course tonight (with the marvellous Rommi Smith) and we’ve been talking about syllables. So we wrote a cinquain, a...

“Her name is Barb. She’s never shut. The one-sided sign on the door reads: OPEN.” So a ‘children’s poem’ very much in the vein of Roald...

Maybe that’s how New York would want it: rude and random. I’m not sure – but here it is, anyway: Low Angle Monday 21st April, 17.59. ‘The...

Caught up! Here’s my take on the shell name, ‘The Sparse Dove’…This one was rather fun to write. Sparse I realise there’s a lot riding on...

The view from Castle Hill above Huddersfield Here’s my rubaiyat (though I think I lost the rhyme scheme in the last two stanzas – gah!),...

a tall empty form... Something that started as a sort of ‘mock poem’ but I thought I’d turn it into a slightly less mock-poem…Based on a...

“She’s the actual one, you know, who hooted through the hall of Hogwarts. In the film. Really.” Up to Wednesday! The prompt/challenge 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...

But is she among them…? It’s a catch up day again – I’m finding that poetry gathering- and writing-binges are how I’m doing NaPoWriMo...

Upmarket Sunday. Nom nom nom. Today’s challenge: to write something with the Old Norse tradition of kennings. These are a kind...

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,...

Hangover evidence… Day 11: the challenge to write something Anacreon would approve of. Well, I’m not sure how much he wrote about...

Someone else’s crackling sausage. It’s a catch-up day…I’m aiming to get 10, 11, 12 and maybe 13 on here this afternoon – eek! Here’s...