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June 4-10th 2018 is World Haemochromatosis Awareness Week.  Haemochromatosis is the (slightly misleading) name for Iron Overload, whereby iron builds up in the body to toxic levels, and is stored in the organs, leading to long-term and eventually irreversible damage. The genetic form – known in the UK as Genetic Haemochromatosis (GH) and elsewhere asContinue reading “Test your metal”

In the next few months I have work coming out in two shiny new mixed-genre anthologies, and a new poetry pamphlet. The first of the anthologies is Gush: Menstrual Manifestos for our Times, which is edited by Ariel Gordon, Tanis MacDonald, and Rosanna Deerchild, and published by Frontenac House in Calgary. My contribution is a couple of venesection poems, fromContinue reading “news”

For poetry-lovers and the poetry curious in and around the Lakes, the good news is that the Discover Poetry reading group I’ve been facilitating at the Wordsworth Trust since the autumn has been given the green light to continue. Thanks to everyone who has come along, whether for a single session when you’ve been visiting theContinue reading “Keep on discovering poetry all through the year …”

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”