“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...

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...

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...

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

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

26th June at the Heart Centre, Headingley – come along! #writing #poets #creativewriting #poetry #HEadingley #Leeds

A quick update also that – GOOD NEWS – I’m going to be one of the poets featured in the LS13 Leeds Writers anthology, about which more...

Here is a collected list poem or “spell” from students’ work today – coming up with new collective nouns for (Latin-name) species of...

You fear, you fear her return. IT IS THE END OF NAPOWRIMO. And it really has been marvellous. I’ve just one poem (apart from that below)...

Buzz Words and the Bee Ceilidh at Green Man Festival Here’s my listing site for Einstein’s Garden at Green Man – take a look! I’m very...