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...

Yup, this is me after my haircut. (NB – OBVIOUSLY IT’S NOT, from my ‘hair model’ Google, it’s apparently the alarmingly-pristine and...

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...

Our bus across the Yorkshire countryside was not like the Wensleydale Omnibus, alas. http://www.wensleydaleomnibus.co.uk/‎ Final poem of...

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...

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...

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

Last Saturday, I went on a workshop with the Canal Laureate, Jo Bell, about whom you can read more here. We spent some time talking about...

An uphill snail… A brief post, as – after NaPoWriMo – I’ve had a bit of breathing space…But feel like the fallow time is done and the...

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...

A lovely iridescent bubble Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write about a colour. So – as it’s nearing the end of the month and I (as...

Temple Newsam House, with its blessing around the roof-line Catching up with some NaPoWriMo prompts: determined to have at least 30 by...

Indeed she is not. At least we all have death in common though, eh? Off-prompt today, but will be writing a Blessing (after Jo Bell’s...

The Pies of Awareness may or may not come from Gregg’s (who feature, by the way, as a Classical Allusion in another poem of mine by a...

Paul Jenkins’ ‘Phenomena Secret Cargo’ – but not as we saw it in the gallery…Which is right? Day 6 of NaPoWriMo – I’m still brewing a...

Prompt no. 3 of NaPoWriMo was to write a sea shanty. This pleased me greatly as I’m a part of (when I can make it!) the Ocean Loiners – a...

Eliot – who never had twin daughters…Or did he? (No, he didn’t). Onward with NaPoWriMo catch-up – now at 66.66% catch-up. We’re entering...

This was the most tasteful dead dog I could find. Or maybe it’s asleep – let’s just say it’s asleep. Catching up 33% complete: here’s my...

Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21885659 I love raptors – wrote a poem last year about meeting a...

How a bee might see a flower – except, not really, because they *smell shapes* (kind of). I’m brewing a project – a series  of workshops...