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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”

Today is the official publication date for Basic Nest Architecture. If you’ve pre-ordered copies, they should be winging their way towards you forthwith (one friend suggested a Raven delivery system, but I think most of them will just be Royal Mail, due to the birds’ tendency to re-purpose them as nest material – apt enough but notContinue reading “It’s a book!”

It is ten days until the official publication date for my first collection, Basic Nest Architecture.  As a taster, I’ve put together a playlist on soundcloud of six poems from the book: three new recordings and three I made for The Lonely Crowd last Spring. The other playlist I have made for Basic Nest Architecture is a list of songs:Continue reading “A song with a rock in it”