This is my day 30 (final one for the year) effort for National Poetry Writing Month. It’s a homophonic translation (according to sound,...

The Bristol Queen… I’ve been travelling to Weston-super-Mare the last couple of weeks to run a course – and have noticed a boat on...

A zoo sign from Bristol Zoo – and a wonderful artistic intervention. Something from today, for yesterday…I ran a group today and we...

Very long lines was today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo – I’m not sure mine are quite long enough, but I don’t have much time today – and have...

There was something I really wanted to write for a submission this week – so I duly have (and am treating it as my daily poem – though...

A quick and very-first-draft one today (which may remain so) – written in response to a prompt in Helena Nelson’s book How (not) To Get...

We were at a funeral yesterday and I wrote something about waiting to go to such a ceremony at a crematorium – and also touching on them...

It appears I’m writing more that I might submit elsewhere this year – which makes for a less interesting blog, but a more hopeful...

And a second blackout poem for today…Text version underneath… HURT creamy wealth chopped chopped peeled and grated ground ground dried...

If you’d like an actual, not silly, article about this subject, go here. Inspired by a rum-punch hangover conversation: SCRIPT FOR A VERY...

“In a terracotta pot, day-/glo plastic pegs cling to the edge…” I liked the NaPoWriMo prompt today – the idea of the last, abstracted...

“for a moment it is there” Day Eleven! I’m still operating on the idea that any of these I really like and want to take on, may be...

The skill game where you’re the doctor! A tritina, from yesterday’s prompt, and without an introduction… **NB Taken this one down as I...

SEND IT BACK Catch up Friday (and because writing is more fun that other things I should probably be doing). A quickly-written but...

“hook yourself up to this black machine…” Catching up and got rather caught up on this one… There’s an element of the Concrete about it,...

A delightful ‘Dogship’ from this website – I don’t know what they do (because I can’t read it), but presumably it relates to dog care,...

“Let us get ourselves a pet…” My, it’s getting late. Which might be why day three turned out quite so peculiarly (sorry not sorry)....

“It said it was from IKEA…” (And this picture is from there). Day two for NaPoWriMo, and something I started yesterday. I looked through...

“A bright seed…” It’s April – and that means National Poetry Writing Month…And I’ve decided to really commit again this year. I’ll be...

A quick note to say my Write Off sessions will be starting again on Tuesday 1st March. The sessions are open to all young people from 15...