Hopefully living on Mars wouldn’t be much like The Expanse… Next week, I’ll be compering an event as part of at-Bristol’s ‘Festival of...

A poem of mine, ‘Hands’,  has just gone up on Folia Magazine online – you can read it here. The poem came out of a workshop a couple of...

Shaun’s response to a government report on Innovation… There’s a quick update on The Poetry School Microcommission project, ‘Chainmail’,...

We got one of the Lo! and Behold Microcommissions from The Poetry School! Mine was one of five projects fortunate enough to receive a...

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

An empty aquarium – shall we fill it with poems? Shall we? So yes, it being the end of NaPoWriMo, I’m going quite deranged and using...

The Universe loves things to get more disordered. (So most of us fit right in – We Are Stardust!) I’m running on a slightly altered...

The battery-farming of conversation, in the form of a call centre. Day 10’s prompt was to write a poem of un-love; not a malediction, so...

http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/pesticide-bees-scent-food-neocotinoid Just after my piece about how bees see and smell –...

How lovely: a fellow science and poetry blogger (but one who writes about the science behind poetry, rather than poetry based on science)...

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

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...

Ada King, Countess of Lovelace – AKA Proto-Computer Queen So Friday was International Women’s Day – and Sunday Mother’s Day. Hurrah for...

An artist’s impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope, to be built high up in the Andes – placed next to the London Eye, for...

A Whale App? But not one like the one in my poem-story, I hope. It appears I’m once again interested in all things animal (as opposed to...

A chomping Tyrranosauridae Running a little behind after being struck down with a lurgy last week, but here is my latest sci-po – no...

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...

Part of an excellent comic strip on cat killers from: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill – go on their website and buy their...

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...

The Loneliness of a (Prune-Fingered) Trawler Fisherman This morning, I read a lovely news story by Jonathan Amos about research on...