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Basic Nest Architecture is one year old today, or hereabouts. Hasn’t it grown? And what a lot of teeth. Way back before I ever held it in my arms, I said I’d share my BNA playlist, so I thought it was about time. As with all my playlists, the basic rules are just that they have to beContinue reading “Happy Birthday, little book.”

2018 seems to be panning out as a year of libraries for me. I’m gearing up for my month at Gladstone’s Library in February, and can now reveal that Basic Nest Architecture was chosen as one of New Writing North’s Read Regional books for 2018. The Read Regional scheme pays for writers to do events in librariesContinue reading “Year of Libraries”

I’m not sure how to reflect on 2017. Personally, as politically, its events will be sending out after-shocks and having knock-on effects for longer, and in stranger ways, than I can begin to imagine. At the very end of February, my first poetry collection was published, something I’d been aiming for for so long, thatContinue reading “17/18”

  It looks like this Autumn is going to be particularly eventful for me. On Saturday September 16th I’m going to be borrowing a time-turner to do two events in one day. In the morning, I’ll be reading for Caught by The River at The Good Life Experience in Hawarden in Flintshire. In the evening I’ll be backContinue reading “Autumn Happenings”

It’s the year’s midpoint; midsummer’s day. In Cumbria the longest day seems to be marking the end of a small but impressive heatwave: the storm arrived around the solstice hour itself. Today has been a mixture of warm rain and steaming sun. Avoiding even touching on the state of the nation(s), it’s been an interestingContinue reading “Mid-mid, most inclined”